Primal Scream. Come Ahead.

This is huge album, full of unexpected joys. It opens with Ready To Go Home where an acapella gospel intro builds into joyous, swaggering funk.

‘When my time finally comes, I’ll be ready’, intones Bobby Gillespie who sang the upbeat, darkly humorous number to his trade unionist father Bob the night before he died.

Where early Primal Scream channelled the psychedelic sixties, their 12th album draws on Motown and early 70s Philadelphia soul. It’s as if the …