Utopian Ashes is not the most obvious record Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie and Savages belter Jehnny Beth could have made together. A cross between Primal Scream’s frothy, beat-driven psychedelia and Beth’s scorched-earth punk would have been their path of least resistance, and it’s easy to imagine how great it might have sounded. But instead the two opted for something higher risk, higher reward, and much higher concept: a fictionalized divorce album modeled after the tear-jerking country, soul, and pop duets of yesteryear. It’s a side project in the truest sense, a departure from anything either has attempted with their primary bands. Clear vinyl copy.

• A1 Chase It Down
• A2 English Town
• A3 Remember We Were Lovers
• A4 Your Heart Will Always Be Broken
• B1 Stones Of Silence
• B2 You Don't Know What Love Is
• B3 Self-Crowned King Of Nothingness / You Can Trust Me Now
• B4 Living A Lie
• B5 Sunk In Reverie