Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers – Spencer Gets It Lit
Bronze Rat / PIAS
Garage, Alternative, Rock, Punk, Blues
Rated: ***
Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Heavy Trash and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion have all come, get us lit, kicked some ass and gone. Gone… The way of the knife wielding dancing dodo… Errr, anyway, back in 2018 maestro Jon Spencer brought out an album under his own name and we had the honor to interview the king trashcan kicker. And now he’s back with a new outfit called Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers and an album called Spencer Gets It Lit. Garage punk for the now people! Which is basically the same outfit he used for that solo record, with addition of Pussy Galore and Sonic Youth drummer Bob Bert, which means good news for all those lovers of noisy and trashy garage rock! And for all of those who want their nights to get weird and good taste to fly out the window whenever the weather is hot! Whenever the summer hits the city! Whenever the thirst for wild nights, copious amounts of dubious quality alcohol and horrible junk gets too big! And it's all here... That dying Farfisa, begging to be put out of its misery! Those rusty screwdriver riffs penetrating every orifice of your tiny little body! The abundance of filth distilled to the most economically foul few minutes that every track might last. Spencer Gets It Lit burns the candle at every end you can imagine and gets away with it. This is the junk man!
(Written by JK)