Name: Spencer Sings The Hits
Brand: Jon Spencer

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

itr329

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-11-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

759718532913

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jon Spencer

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

In The Red

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/amor-sinking-into-a-miracle">Rough Trade Exclusive Clear Vinyl with Exclusive Four-Track Bonus CD featuring the two previously vinyl-only 12"s Paradise and Higher Moment.</a>

The debut album from Glaswegians Richard Youngs (vocals), Michael Francis Duch (bass), Paul Thomson (percussion/drums) and Luke Fowler (synths/keys), is a playful and mysterious piece, spilling over with funky optimism and blissed out beats.

The strands of melody play and shift around as a dancing bass drags you on to the (surely) flashing dancefloor. Handclaps and percussion permeate throughout, embellishing the tracks with infectious accoutrement. The vocals have a face-to-sun euphoria. They call out while funk-synths whoop and thrumming drums rattle. The loops carry you along in a river of laidback shuffling carnival Afro-grooves.

An enveloping album splashed with new-age positivity, a clear-eyed glimpse of the future powered by mutant disco rhythms, plaintive piano and hypnotic mantras.

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Albums of the Year 2018

Jon Spencer's Spencer Sings The Hits. Available here on Limited Edition Indie Exclusive Marbled Purple or Orange Vinyl, Standard Vinyl, and Standard CD.

Jon Spencer, The Blues Explosion Man who put the Bellbottoms on Baby Driver! The Top Cat who spread the Secret Sauce in Boss Hog! The Rockabilly Right-Hook from Heavyweight Outlaws Heavy Trash! The Swank-Fucking Master of Pussy Galore! Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness with twelve red-hot hits, each more powerful than the last! This is Garage Punk for Now People! A wizard’s brew of rhythm and blues and subversive dance grooves, weaponized with sci-fi skronk and industrial attitude, calibrated for the Revolution, a Molotov cocktail of sound guaranteed to destroy any post-modern hangover! Pulsing with energy, clanging with excitement, and dripping with radioactive soul and raw emotion, Jon Spencer opens up his heart like never before, exploring man’s modern condition with caustic guitars and outerworld crooning, asking and answering the musical question, “Is it possible to torch the cut-throat world of fake news and pre-fab, plastic-coated teen rebellion with the power of rock’n’roll?” The Answer is YES!. Spencer Sings the Hits! This is the truth serum America has been craving, the beginning of a rock’n’roll rebellion that takes no prisoners and puts the squares on ice! Featuring the talents of Sam Coomes (Quasi, Heatmeiser) and M. Sord (M. Sord).

LP+ - Limited Indie Shops Coloured Vinyl. 500 Copies Only.