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9.0
46559
9.0 |
Blurt
Out of this world and as addictive as Heisenberg's Blue Sky meth
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8.5
46987
8.5 |
Paste Magazine
It’s a monumental return—pure, unfiltered American rock ‘n’ roll—and has to be considered one of the party albums of the year
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8.0
47153
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Although mindful of their forebears, JSBE waste no time in marking the territory with their own scent
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8.0
46356
8.0 |
Mojo
No retro trip, this, greasy grooves and hollered pulpit soundbytes remain Blues Explosion's prime business. Print edition only
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8.0
46297
8.0 |
The Observer
If anything, they seem to have gained funkiness
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8.0
46298
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Perpetually on the brink of incoherence and entropy, sounding like a head-on car crash between James Brown and the MC5. It's a blast
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8.0
46300
8.0 |
NME
Original alt-blues preacherman Spencer is on ferocious form here
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8.0
46302
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Meat and Bone, in a nutshell, is kick-ass bad and it has addictive qualities that will force you to play the record multiple times at full throttle, perhaps to the dismay of your loved ones. You have been warned
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8.0
46352
8.0 |
Uncut
It still has that hairy, unpredictable, somewhat demented aspect that give the Blues Explosion its unique spark
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7.5
46728
7.5 |
Prefix
It’s good to have the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion back after all these years, if only for the rubbernecking fascination that is their unique sound
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7.5
46318
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Following the 2010 reissues of the group’s ’90s Matador albums, Meat And Bone is largely a success, even if its less-focused second half feels a bit rote
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7.3
46401
7.3 |
Pitchfork
They're reapplying for the job of America's most raucous, hardest-working rock'n'roll band, and will let the sweat speak for itself
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7.0
46775
7.0 |
PopMatters
The Blues Explosion isn’t playing the sounds that are in vogue. It isn’t playing the songs you might necessarily want to hear. It’s playing songs that are quintessentially not of this time
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7.0
46303
7.0 |
All Music
may not restore faith in reunions in general, but it does prove that this burly trio has plenty of swagger and sloppy rock and roll left in them
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6.0
46301
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A Blues Explosion record in the purest sense, loaded front to back with fuzzed guitars, vocals doused in kitschy reverb, car-wreck drumming, and general musical weirdness
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6.0
46299
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Against such a strong back catalogue, Meat and Bone looks set to go down as an addendum rather than a milestone
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4.0
46354
4.0 |
Q
Packed with action but lacking traction. Print edition only
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