Boss Hog – Brood X: News Feature / Reviews

“Brood X feels less like the work of a group who’ve been on ice for so long, more a slithering and sludgy monster of an album, a boiling pot of hot funk keys, growling punk attack, searing blues breaks and the ground-shaking holler of Martinez.”

Link: https://theplanetofsound.net/2017/03/10/boss-hog-release-new-track-expand-tour-dates-album-out-324/

“Brood X è un disco vizioso, trasgressivo, anticonformista e pregno di quella sessualità selvaggia che solo poche altre band sono riuscite ad eguagliare, figuriamoci superare…” – rocklab.it

Link: http://www.rocklab.it/2017/03/18/boss-hog-brood-x/

“Has it been 17 years since the last Boss Hog album? Well, the gloomy doomy opener of Brood X lets you know right off the bat, they’re not taking any prisoners.” – Soundblab

Link: https://soundblab.com/reviews/albums/17443-boss-hog-brood-x

““Billy” kicks it off as a statement of purpose, and “Signal” is a pure blast of icy no-wave proto funk.” – TheOwlMag.com

Link: http://www.theowlmag.com/discovery/hear-this-boss-hog/

“The songs bristle with scuzzy riffs, distortion and middle-aged antagonism at a changing world.” – ft.com

Link: https://www.ft.com/content/6a97a5b0-0f69-11e7-a88c-50ba212dce4d

“Boss Hog have nothing to prove to the current generation but prove it anyway.”

“Brood X is not only their strongest work but a darkhorse contender for album of the year.”

Link: http://www.50thirdand3rd.com/boss-hog-brood-x-album-review/

“Zo goddelijk goed en goor met die inmiddels zeldzame maar enige juiste NY street spirit…”

Link: https://www.platomania.nl/album/4664190/brood-x/boss-hog

“Ça donne un album de rock authentique qui fera plaisir à entendre dans une fin de soirée embrumée par l’alcool.”

Link: http://lecanalauditif.ca/critique-boss-hog-brood-x/

“The New York blues-punks return with their first new album in nearly two decades—a powerful showcase for singer Cristina Martinez and the fiery, apocalyptic buzz in her wake.”

“…while the lock-step battery of bassist Jens Jurgensen and drummer Hollis Queens effortlessly alternate between a galloping death-disco and a gut-punching thrust. And then Finn’s ray-gunned keys thread it all together like a B-52’s channeling Richard Kern instead of Ed Wood.” – Pitchfork

Link: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23051-brood-x/

““This is an emergency!” howls Martinez on Elevators, a panic-pumped anthem that sounds like Parliament’s polymorphic party music fed through the Bomb Squad’s sound system. She’s not wrong. But don’t worry – Boss Hog have what you need. They always have. So you’d better be thankful they’ve awoken again.

The aim of Boss Hog, however, remains the same: to have fun, and to make noise. And they’ve never sounded so great…” – The Breakfast Spread, PBSFM

Link: http://www.pbsfm.org.au/node/65267

“Boss Hog a effectué un des meilleurs come-back de cette année, n’en déplaise à The Jesus & Mary Chain ou encore Slowdive.” – Les Oreilles Curieuses

Link: https://lesoreillescurieuses.com/tag/boss-hog/

“Rüde, raffiniert, schmutzig, mit griffigen Melodien: „Elevators To The Lobby!“ Dann runter in die Garage. Partytime.” – MusikReviews.de

Link: http://musikreviews.de/reviews/2017/Boss-Hog/Brood-X/

“Listen to my wife!” – CuttingEdge.be

Link: http://www.cuttingedge.be/muziek/boss-hog-brood-x

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Boss Hog – Brood X: 24 March 2017

Boss Hog release Brood X on 24 March 2017 via Bronze Rat (EU) and In The Red Records (US).

Bronze Rat: http://bronzerat.limitedrun.com/products/584398-boss-hog-brood-x

In The Red Records: http://intheredrecords.com/

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“What if I told you Jon Spencer was also IN it?”

This tweet by Edgar Wright suggests that Jon Spencer also appears in the film Baby Driver.

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Baby Driver: Reviews / Articles

Articles on Baby Driver​ (11 August 2017) which reference The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion​.

“Wright explained that the 1994 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album Orange was a big influence, specifically the song “Bellbottoms,” which he thought would make a great car chase song.” – The Daily Dot​

Link: https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/edgar-wright-on-the-music-of-baby-driver-and-its-unexpected-influences/

“But Baby is different, Baby is unique, and Baby can’t drive unless he’s jacked into an iPod, which could be blaring anything from The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to The Damned to Barry White.” – Consequence of Sound​

Link: http://consequenceofsound.net/2017/03/sxsw-film-review-baby-driver/

“Early on, Wright establishes the rhythms governing Baby’s world, as he blasts The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms” while accelerating through town.” – IndieWire​

Link: http://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/baby-driver-review-edgar-wright-ansel-elgort-jon-hamm-sxsw-2017-1201792735/

“In a likely nod to Robert Altman’s “Thieves Like Us,” during the first bank hit, Wright remains parked outside with the kid, listening to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s “Bellbottoms” while the rest of the team (Jon Hamm, Jon Bernthal, and Eiza González) rob the joint.” – Variety​

Link: http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/baby-driver-review-edgar-wright-1202006730/

IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3890160/

Official Site:
https://twitter.com/BabyDriverMovie
https://www.facebook.com/BabyDriverMovie/

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“You won’t be disappointed with the amount of Jon Spencer.”

Edgar Wright Discusses ‘Baby Driver’ on AustinChronicle.com:

“He’s been tinkering with the idea since 1994. That’s five years before his breakout success with subversive British sitcom Spaced, when “Bellbottoms” by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion earwormed its way into his skull. The 19-year-old Wright kept it on constant repeat, “and I kept visualizing this car chase, and thinking, ‘This would be a great car chase song.’”

“So with his engine revving for the premiere, will “Bellbottoms,” the song that started it all, be part of the soundtrack? Wright won’t say whether, after 22 years, he managed to get it into the action. But, he slyly noted, “You won’t be disappointed with the amount of Jon Spencer.”

Link: http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2017-03-10/putting-the-pedal-to-the-metal/

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