There's nothing new in genre-mixing | Tom Ewing

Hybridisation is a basic tenet of art-pop and purists lurk at the margins in a strange hothouse full of exotic bloomsPrimal Scream's Screamadelica is 20 this year, and celebrates with the inevitable doorstop reissue. It ought, perhaps, to be 21 – the album's moment was aptly sprawling and drawn out, from the release of the first single in February 1990 to its winning the inaugural Mercury prize more than two years later. Loaded heralded the high-tide of indie-dance – by the time Screamadel...

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