The John Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme torrent

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Acme
Blues /Garage Rock
1998
192Kbps

1.Calvin
2.Magical Colors
3.Do You Wanna Get Heavy?
4.High Gear
5.Talk About The Blues
6.I Wanna Make It All Right
7.Lovin' Machine
8.Bernie
9.Blue Green Olga
10.Give Me A Chance
11.Desperate
12.Torture
13.Attack

Front cover Included.

Yet another mess of colors (emphasis on mess) from the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion that defies any particular grounding. This time, with Acme, the trio's fifth full-length, the frayed punk tones are replaced by more of a Beasties/Beck/Dust Brothers/white-guys-gone-phat sort of thing, where rat-a-tat beats and bone-crushing, speaker-frying bottom ends collide with shards of sweet soul, gospel, country, blues, and even some pummeling stoner rock as well as Spencer's own wacked-out Presley-Jagger vocal spew. Including the knob-twiddling participation of Steve Albini, Calvin Johnson, and, predominantly, the Automator (rapper-rocker Andre Williams gets the title of executive producer, whatever that means), Acme is an orgy of noise that occasionally even resembles actual songs. Certain to dazzle some, certain to scare plenty more

It's strange to hear such an electrifying live band sampling and looping itself, and Spencer's moan can sound a little too mannered in this context. For the most part, though, Blues Explosion-as-crazed-cyborg is a kickass idea, and they sound like they're getting off on discarding song form as rock knows it.

Enjoy! :)