6 in the UK, staying on the charts for ten weeks. Issued in April 1988 on the back of the success of Crash, it peaked at No. They swiftly rose from being a popular Indie guitar outfit to charting worldwide with Crash, kickstarting a craze in bands fronted by blonde female singers (Transvision Vamp, The Darling Buds et al). If one can look past the fact that their brand of Brit-pop sounds a bit dated, the Primitives are a consistently exciting listen.īack in the mid-80s, The Primitives combined the fuzz guitars of The Jesus and Mary Chain with the pop sensibilities of Blondie and a nod to cult heroes The Velvet Underground. Court's simple, jangly guitar lines and Tracey's sweet, melodic vocals.
The Primitives, however, are more about writing hooky pop songs than making great artistic strides Lovely's most memorable tracks are built around P.J. The album is at its best when the band departs from its pop sound - the Jesus and Mary Chain-inspired noise of "Spacehead" and "Stop Killing Me," or the Eastern-sounding "Shadow," with its sitar and backwards vocals, stand out as some of the more artistically worthwhile tracks. Some of the Primitives' more "pop" songs are a bit too straightforward and bland, but the majority of Lovely is well-written enough to make up for the occasional lapse into plainness.
The Primitives' sound pretty much defines the lighter side of British pop in the late '80s: straight-ahead pop melodies, tinged with a bit of Manchester danceability and shoegazer experimentation.
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