Chaosmosis
Chaosmosis is the eleventh studio album by Scottish band Primal Scream. It was released on 18 March 2016 on the band's First International label, through Ignition Records. The album's lead single, "Where the Light Gets In", was released on 1 February 2016 and features American singer Sky Ferreira. "I Can Change" was released on 14 March 2016 as the second single from the album. "Trippin' on Your Love" was released to US submodern rock radio on 16 March 2016 as the album's third single. The fourth single, "100% or Nothing", was released as a 12-inch single on 19 August 2016.
The album is the last to feature band member Martin Duffy prior to his death in December 2022.
Critical reception
Chaosmosis received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 65, based on 25 reviews. Writing for Exclaim!, Cam Lindsay called the record "an uneven effort by a band that specializes in doing whatever the hell feels right."Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Chaosmosis.Primal Scream
- Bobby Gillespie – vocals ; synthesiser
- Andrew Innes – guitar ; loops ; plug-ins ; synthesiser ; dulcimer
- Martin Duffy – piano ; organ ; vibraphone
- Darrin Mooney – percussion ; drums
Additional musicians
- Danielle Haim – backing vocals
- Este Haim – backing vocals
- Alana Haim – backing vocals
- Jason Falkner – bass
- Björn Yttling – synthesiser ; celeste ; piano
- Christoffer Zachrisson – zither
- Jim Hunt – flute ; saxophone
- Rachel Zeffira – vocals, viola, violin ; backing vocals ; cor anglais
- Deborah Chandler – cello
- John Eriksson – drums
- Sky Ferreira – vocals
- Sophie Nevrkla – backing vocals
- Grace Cockell – backing vocals
Technical
- Björn Yttling – production ; additional production
- Andrew Innes – production ; engineering
- Bobby Gillespie – production
- Lasse Mårtén – mixing
- Brendan Lynch – engineering
- Ross Matthews – engineering
- Gustav Lindelow – engineering
- Hans Stenlund – engineering
- Max Heyes – engineering
- Sean Kellet – engineering
- Joe Harrison – engineering assistance
Artwork
- Jim Lambie – artwork
- Mick Hutson – original photography
- Matthew Cooper – design
- Bobby Gillespie – design