Name: Acme
Brand: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ole3221

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2008-11-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Beggars

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Genre GB

Garage / Surf / Trash

Label GB

back in stock on 150 gram virgin vinyl on matador. 'acme', jon spencer blues explosion's sixth full-length album, is an urban juke-joint rabble-rouser for the end of the century, a summation of the band's journeys up various tributaries of chaos and tradition, a final bedding of exile on main street and hip-hop. of course to be all these things, it has to be a kick-ass rock and roll album - and, of course, it is. russell simins and producers dan the automator and calvin johnson create the sleekest groove machine to date for spencer's promotional-slogans-as-rock-chants, or else steve albini strips away all sonic accessories to leave them in their primordial rock-trio skivvies. on songs like like 'bernie' and 'high gear', the blues explosion's rock power is positively zep-esque. yet they balance their grinding, blues-riff rides with leveling reflections - of groove as a downbeat reprieve ('calvin'), of song as a melancholy love call ('magical colors', which sounds like it fell off exile's sublime fourth side). of course, sometimes they sound like misplaced white boys who reek of north mississippi gin, and sometimes like poseurs riding a wave of lower-east-side-via-berlin noise, screaming 'blues explosion, attack!' but on 'acme', the jon spencer blues explosion never forgets that it's a 'rawk' band first and post-modern art project somewhere down the list.

Acme

Music GB