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Plastic Fang

Release Date: 
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
Artist: 
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Star Rating: 
★★★★
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion can rock, but in recent years they’ve been derailed by their electronic dabblings and Spencer’s apparent belief that he’s the second coming of Elvis. On Plastic Fang they quit fucking around and get back to basics. Guitars squawk and roar as JSBX roll like the Stones through “She Said” and “Mother Nature,” coming on with more menace and power than they have since their debut. Spencer even gives his hunka-burnin’-love shtick a rest, letting the Blues Explosion’s badass grooves do all the strutting that’s necessary.