Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass | ||||
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Released | March 1993 | |||
Genre | Post-hardcore Noise rock Experimental rock | |||
Label | Homestead | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lime Lizard | (favorable) [2] |
Melody Maker | (favorable) [3] |
Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass is the second album by Trumans Water. It is their first (and only) double-album and was released in 1993 on Homestead Records in the United States and Elemental Records in the UK. There is also a Japanese re-release of the album with a radically different track listing. Everett True, in a 1993 review of the album, described it "Imagine Pavement if they were five Gary Youngs with the songwriting ability of two Steve Malkmuses". [3] Chris Sharp, writing in Lime Lizard stated "there are 20 tracks here, but each one feels like at least three songs grafted together in some bizarre musico-genetic experiment". [2]
US and UK standard release
1995 Japanese King Records version
Track listing notes: This version of the album contains only thirteen of the twenty songs included on the original album (same recordings and mixes as the standard issue of the album); these alternate with twelve new tracks that resemble the improvised music contained on the bands' series of Godspeed albums and on their cassette releases.