Cargo Records

Cmon DJ

C'mon DJ opens with the punkish title song; what was once stoical and spartan has become ferocious, high-volume romping.

Recorded and mixed by Cartwright and Doug Easley, the album features fewer covers (four, including "Asked for Water") and less outside instrumentation. This singular album mixes garage nervousness and heartfelt renditions of the blues; on almost every song the combination is fresh and imaginative. If describing the guitar as part retro-punk and part rockabilly rave sounds like Jon Spencer's excursions into the same territory that would be wrong: there is no irony, no taunting, no fraudulent re-assemblage here. - Trouser Press