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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 'Crypt Style' (1992)
Whether you perceive him as a smirking art-schooler slumming on the po' side of the music world or a primitivist prophet with an uncanny knack for devolving rock back to its crudest state, it's hard to dispute the notion that Jon Spencer does it his way. Given the amount of smoke and mirrors he employs to realize absolute simplicity, it's almost impossible to divine what makes Spencer tick — but in light of the uniform purity of his "essence," it's easy to forget the means and simply groove on the end. Even though the Blues Explosion — Spencer, second guitarist Judah Bauer and ex-Honeymoon Killers drummer Russell Simins — doesn't so much play the blues as play with its signifiers, the group frequently falls into impressively raw approximations of such uninhibited genre forefathers as Hound Dog Taylor [while] Spencer, who sounds like a man who's just mainlined melted-down copies of Hasil Adkins' entire back catalogue, hiccups and hyperventilates through the trebly commotion he and Bauer kick up. - Trouser Press