Screamadelica takes you to a not so distant past where every kid in Manchester was doing E and shaking ass all night. It's more than just a dance album though, it's the best fucking dance album ever! the instruments and samples it layers in there just concrete the insanity that Billy Gillespie wants you to remember for ever and ever. And its those subtle moments that just build on this muthafucka like an exactoknife. The crazy gospel breakdown of "Movin' On Up", moving to the new-wave acid trip that is "Slip Inside This House", and then the overbuilding R&B of "Don't Fight It, Feel It". Those first three tracks are enough to make this album perhaps the most diverse ever. I remember when I first bought it, I couldn't stop listening to it. I remember listening to "Come Together" on an airplane as I flew in to Florida, and playing the minimalist pleasure of "Higher Than The Sun" or the Stones-esque ballad of "Damaged" every day on that trip. It takes you back to a time that takes you back to another time (nineties dance music that pays serious homage to the sixties - namely The Stones and The Family Stone, as well as the Brian Wilson freak dream that is "Inner Flight") and pays you sentimentality that you truly cannot place where it's coming from. But if you ever find yourself in a slump, or in this situation, a funk, then all you gotta do is play the likes of "Loaded" and dance the night away, and the rest of the second half will do the calming down for you
By: Renbird