To Luhaine, whose fussy penchant for austerity counted music a scatterbrained dalliance, the enduring character embedded in primal rock made the quickened lives of plants and animals seem chaotic and shrill by comparison.
Mayo Thompson of The Red Krayola joined as guitarist for this album, and slanted the proceedings further towards deconstruction and abstraction, and away from the primal rock that former guitarist Tom Herman had facilitated.
Just primal rock, with a dusting of frost.
One night, he and some of his friends went to a heavy metal rock concert, you know the kind, head-bangers, primal rock, big crowds standing on the floor screaming to the music, half of them stoned or drunk.
Guitarist John Squire lead new songs towards a Led Zeppelin inspired, heavier sound, prompting Reni to take a more primal, rock based approach with additional tom-toms for a more complex sound.
Where the laboratory had stood was merely a great hole, blasted to the primal rock beneath.
This line of primal rock was uninhabitable.
Energy enough to blast these mountains down to the primal rock were it released instantly.
A classic performance from the sandpaper-throated Noddy Holder, the finest primal rock 'n' roll howler after Lennon.
He singles out "She Knows" as "gently propulsive, [and] utterly addictive", but adds that there are "still moments of tough, primal rock 'n' roll", such as "It's Only Money" and "Sha La La".