Give Out but Don't Give Up
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| Released | 28 March 1994 | |||
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| Length | 61:00 | |||
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| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Great Rock Discography | 7/10 |
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| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Select | 5/5 |
| Vox | 7/10 |
Give Out but Don't Give Up is the fourth studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream. It was released on 28 March 1994 in the United Kingdom by Creation Records and in the United States by Sire Records. It peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. Musically, it marked a massive departure from the psychedelic sound of their previous studio album Screamadelica (1991) into one influenced by classic rock and blues music. Its cover art is a cropped version of an untitled photo from the Troubled Waters collection by American photographer William Eggleston. Eggleston included the album in his 2017 Pitchfork list of "the Music That Made Him a Photography Legend."
The record's retro stylings, which were compared to the Rolling Stones and the music of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, was received with dismay from fans of the acclaimed, genre-bending Screamadelica (1991), and was "one of the most reviled records in recent history" according to one critic, although Primal Scream had explored a similarly rootsy sound on their earliest albums.
The album peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Heatseekers chart.
A second version of the album, featuring previously lost recordings, was released in 2018 as Give Out But Don’t Give Up: The Original Memphis Recordings.