- Record Label: Mom & Pop Music
- Release Date: Sep 18, 2012
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Sep 17, 2012Meat + Bone 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.
-
Sep 21, 2012Meat + Bone operates with the same lean, restless energy JSBX always display in concert: at their best, no band sounds this alive, unable to sit still for a second.
-
Sep 21, 2012Meat and Bone stands as quite possibly the band's best album to date. The Explosion breaks everything down to its root and reconstructs it all in a perfect way; it should show a generation of cool kids that may have missed him the first time around that Jon Spencer is among garage rock's main guitar slingers.
-
Sep 17, 2012First-time listeners might find the record a tough initiation. But for diehard fans, Meat + Bone is a long-awaited return to the wild side, with the Blues Explosion offering up all the mutated musical goodness as you can stomach.
-
Sep 17, 2012Against such a strong back catalogue, Meat and Bone looks set to go down as an addendum rather than a milestone.
-
Nov 27, 2012Like a raging flood, JSBX has picked up all sorts of things on its way down, but unlike Irene, the band has turned a jumble into something tight and precise and essentially its own.
-
MagnetOct 4, 2012The trio still churns as mixing hot butter with bourbon and gargling gasoline [No.91 p.59]
-
MojoSep 19, 2012No retro trip, this, greasy grooves and hollered pulpit soundbytes remain Blue Explosion's prime business--and business is good. {Oct 2012, p.90]
-
Dec 10, 2012For the most part, this is a fizzing, fuzzing album that manages to sound both younger and older than the band that produced it.
-
Sep 17, 2012The trio's first new album in eight years finds The Black Keys' filthy uncles, Grinderman's cellmates and The Stooges' delinquent offspring still deeply embedded in a scuzzy groove.
-
Sep 20, 2012Meat And Bone finds Spencer at what is arguably his most Bowie-esque.
-
Oct 3, 2012It's a monumental return-pure, unfiltered American rock 'n' roll--and has to be considered one of the party albums of the year.
-
Sep 20, 2012Stripped of the cut-and-paste studio trickery and celebrity cameos that defined the band's records from the mid-90s onward, the self-produced Meat and Bone boasts no ambition beyond capturing the Blues Explosion in straight-up, no-bullshit rock'n'soul mode.
-
Sep 28, 2012Meat and Bone is not a perfect album.... [Yet] all these flaws make the album essential.
-
Sep 26, 2012Meat & Bone is proof positive that music needn't be so reverent to its past.
-
Q MagazineSep 17, 2012They strain to resemble the Stooges and mavericks from the Beasties to the Stones but still can't conjure the killer tune. [Oct 20012, p.103]
-
Oct 8, 2012They might not be fracking new rocks with their sound, but for those in the know with ears to blow, it's manna from an alternate heaven.
-
Sep 18, 2012Meat And Bone is the heir apparent to Now I Got Worry, and a fine return to form.
-
Sep 17, 2012It's a blast.
-
Sep 17, 2012If anything, they seem to have gained funkiness on workouts such as Get Your Pants Off and the loose, classy closing instrumental, Zimgar.
-
Sep 20, 2012Meat And Bones is a welcome return from a band whose absence has been keenly felt over these last few years
-
UncutSep 17, 2012It includes great music, but it still has that hairy, unpredictable, somewhat demented aspect that gives the Blues Explosion its unique spark. [Oct 2012, p.72]