The Entroporium

The news that Teenage Fanclub would release its first record in five years came as a welcome surprise. I had assumed that Scotland’s finest working pop band had thrown in the towel, and when the news rolled out that Tortoise’s John McEntire would be producing, this became easily one of my most anticipated releases of [...]

…and indeed MC5 did kick out the jams (is there really any other way to say it?). The reconstituted DKT/MC5 slammed through the whole album, from the iconic title track (though without the spoken introduction) all the way through the cover of Sun Ra’s “Starship.” It was a storming rendition of one of the all-time great rock and roll albums, and it was treated with reverence and authority by the original performers. What more can you ask for?