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Ace of Spit - Ace of Spit LP

Ace of Spit - Ace of Spit LP

Sophomore Lounge

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I strongly endorse the St. Louis group Ace Of Spit and think you'll also be a satisfied customer if you're interested in a rock 'n' roll that's "timeless" but seemingly free from the concern of being timeless (gnome what I'm saying?).

To fully reduce what's going on here I guess they're a garage group with surf and spaghetti western chops but with a rag tag unruliness that'd certainly have them barred from the retro themed drinking establishment in the metropolitan cities cultural precinct.

Thanks for bringing this one into the world Sophomore Lounge! Brings to mind Long Hots, The Index, Rocket From The Tombs, True Sons Of Thunder, Cheater Slicks, Birds Of Maya and Matrimony in a roundabout way. - Nic

Ace of Spit has been playing regular gigs around South St. Louis for the last five years. Typically you’d find the band inside a basement, burned-out warehouse, or one of the dive bars that still permits smoking, mangling a Sanford Clark or Link Wray cover – perhaps closing out a punk bill because the city ran out of 80s-style hardcore bands. “Oh, it’s that Spaghetti-Western band again...”

All that went away in 2020, so Ace of Spit hid out in a basement and wrote this, their self-titled debut full-length (following a scant scattering of home-dubbed, hand-distributed demo cassettes in editions of don't-even-try), which probably would’ve stayed buried deep inside The Sinkhole if their cohorts at Sophomore Lounge hadn’t fortuitously (if not bizarrely) decided to take interest in the sessions' unbridled stink 'n' spirit.

The songs on "Ace of Spit" chug with a free-wheeling swagger, swaying loosely on the rails and yearning for a time of tweed Fender amps and warbled tape echo. Dragged through the decades, hamstrung by digital distortion and the band’s musical ineptitude (perhaps "enhanced" with the help of available studio substances), small fragments of these undefined and impressionistic eras still shine through from the cracks in the tracks.

Was any of it real, or just a nostalgic dreamland? Some imagined place and time you long for while being punished by a Dumpers super-fan in the Arizona desert? Dreaming of Apollo Bay as you climb back inside a duct-taped E-350 and drive half-asleep to the next job. - Sophomore Lounge