“Wherever you find Spencer, Simins and Bauer, that’s the epicentre of the party.”
TheQuietus.com have just published a review of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion album Freedom Tower – No Wave Dance Party 2015.
Link: http://thequietus.com/articles/17584-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-freedom-tower-review
‘Freedom Tower’ – Oh yes baby just dig it, it’s happening like nobody else.
Link: http://www.uberrock.co.uk/cd-reviews/24-april-cd/14209-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-freedom-tower-new-wave-dance-party-2015-bronze-rat-records.html
“…the Blues Explosion wants to get your body moving, and they know just how to do it.”
Link: http://www.popmatters.com/review/191927-the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-freedom-tower-no-wave-dance-party/
“…Freedom Tower: No Wave Dance Party 2015 still offers up 13 tracks of the band’s mutated blues-funk amalgam, rife with dueling, rubbery riffs and relentless grooves, courtesy of juggernaut drummer Russell Simins”
Link: http://burningambulance.com/2015/04/15/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion/
“The subtitle of Spencer’s new album is spot on. Spencer’s real genius is bringing the No Wave noise — but with the Blues Explosion’s distorted blues/soul/garage guitar riff to make it funky and even danceable, in a goony tribal-stomp kind of way.”
Link: http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/columns/terrells_tuneup/terrell-s-tune-up-jon-spencer-blues-explosion/article_bb828c45-eba2-5d1a-a729-160497237979.html