Acme-Plus

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Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Jon Spencer (vocals, guitar); Judah Bauer (bass); Russell Simins (drums). Additional personnel: Greg Talenfeld (harmonica, background vocals); Brass Monkey (horns); Jeremy Jacobson (piano, organ); Nick Sansano, Greg Foreman (piano); Chris Shaw (organ, synthesizer); Brian Weber, Joel Diamond (organ); Dan The Automator (scratches); Rick Lee (sound effects); Jill Cunniff, Dexter Conyers, Lee "Scout" Ford, Jerome "Rome" Cohen, Jason Powell, Christina Martinez, Hollis Queens, Audrey Rose (background vocals); Othar Turner. Producers: Steve Albini, Dan "The Automator", Calvin Johnson. Engineers include: Calvin Johnson, Steve Albini, Suz Dyer. This JSBX release features 15 exclusive songs and remixes from the band's Acme recording sessions. CD contains 1 bonus track. Personnel: Andre Williams (vocals); Gabby Abulruch (guitar, piano); Luther Dickinson (sitar); Ralph Farris, Krystof Witek (violin); Garo Yellin (cello); Greg Talenfeld (harmonica, background vocals); Jerry Vivino (saxophone); Mark Pender (trumpet); Joey Moskowitz, Money Mark (piano); Joel Diamond (organ); Cody Dickinson (washboard); Moby (percussion); Lee "Scout" Ford, Jason Powell, Jerome "Rome" Cohen, Dexter Conyers, Jill Cunniff (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Chris Shaw ; Dan the Automator; Jamey Staub; Greg Talenfeld; Stimulated Dummies; Jim Dickinson; Moby; Nick Sansano ; Scott Harding. Audio Remixers: David Holmes; Scott Benzel; Stimulated Dummies; Jack Dangers; Jim Waters; John Gamble; Phil Mossman; Tim Goldsworthy; Dante Ross. Photographer: Joe Dilworth. ACME, JSBX'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 JSBX never forgets that it's a "rawk" band first and post-modern art project somewhere down the list.