YES!

Agreed, anyone who witnessed the Beautiful Future gigs knows that the band was on fire then and has been on top form since.  Creating the mythology of the band bouncing back with the new album makes the article a more dramatic read, I guess.

"Little Steven Van Zandt may look like a buffoon, but he knows what he’s talking about."

Petty much stopped reading there...stfu.

Cool!  I've often wondered the story behind the missing vowels.

I saw a tweet about Julian House giving a talk about his artwork and found this:

Primal Scream - Xtrmntr (Creation)

“This sleeve has been seen an awful lot. People still come to us about it. I think it really had an impact when it came out because there wasn’t much collage work about, or sleeves that had a similar feel. The removal of vowels came out of a conversation with another designer here at Intro. I was thinking about how barcode stickers in record shops often abbreviate titles - it can often have a militaristic feel, and this was in keeping with the concept for the album. The images come from things the band were referencing in their lyrics. It became a blend of Pop Art images, CNN footage and a PlayStation game. I worked on this in a rather haphazard way: doing rough, primitive cuts in Quark Express, then pasting them together and gradually removing the detritus. I think it looks like a sort of ‘glitch in the program’, a computer virus. The cover has a strong concept behind it and this was expanded when I worked on the inner booklet and accompanying video.”

Did some digging and found this site, with some great commentary about some of his work. 

http://www.intro-uk.com/category/creative/julian-house/

I haven't watched the "Kill All Hippies" video for ages and it's great, especially when you read his comment about The London Knights:

http://www.intro-uk.com/work/primal-scream-kill-all-hippies/

There's some other interesting stuff on the site about the campaigns for "Evil Heat" and "Beautiful Future" as well as Can, Kraftwerk, Oasis etc.