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Mind Eraser by Nicole Atkins from the album Italian Ice - Video by Big Howl

Album of the Year: Lucifer on the Moon (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction) by Spoon.

And I got nothing to lose but darkness and shadows Got nothing to lose but bitterness and hang-ups The flowers blooming, the trains collide I don't got a thing to lose

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon and Our Love To Admire by Interpol are 15 years old and in other news I'm fucking old.

Spoon’s Britt Daniel, pop up Mohawk gig, July 1, 2021 - first show after the pandemic

"Growing Divide (feat. Britt Daniel)" by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Britt Daniel https://ift.tt/94AVk8B

NOS Alive 2023 - Dia 1: Num dia de pimentos picantes, foram os Spoon quem mais nos satisfizeram o apetite!

NOS Alive 2023. O primeiro dia trouxe uma grande variedade de concertos e de sons. Na nossa opinião, a medalha de ouro foi para os norte americanos Spoon, apesar das atuações dos cabeças de cartaz Red Hot Chili Pappers.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] O primeiro dia do NOS Alive é já passado. Final de tarde e noite até às tantas com muita e variada música. Palmilhámos muito terreno e ouvimos o que queríamos ouvir. Do dia de ontem, restam apenas as palavras que se seguem. E lá fomos nós, de vontade e desejo às costas, até à décima quinta edição do NOS Alive. Como os bons hábitos não se devem perder, metemos o…

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57: Spoon // Girls Can Tell

Girls Can Tell Spoon 2001, Merge

I remember playing Girls Can Tell for a co-worker at a summer job I had in my early twenties in the Alberta Rockies and telling him it’s what I thought should be playing at nightclubs for grown-ups. Doofy as I might’ve been in general, I don’t think I was wrong about this album. Girls Can Tell is one of the coolest records ever made, smooth, nocturnal, still modern sounding despite nobody really producing rock like this anymore. This is partly because the two primary sources of Spoon’s sound, ‘70s post-punk and ‘60s R&B, have never been out of style for long, and partly because Spoon have sublimated these influences so thoroughly that nothing on Girls Can Tell feels like an explicit throwback.

Like, oddly enough, AC/DC, Spoon have a very particular groove that sounds simple enough, but also like no other band despite singer/guitarist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno being the only consistent members. Their rhythm is driving a long black car through the city at night, looking rumpled but exceptionally stylish, with plenty of options but in no mood for small talk. In other hands, the jagged, tensely strummed “Believing is Art” might’ve come out as a gothy early Cure or Cabaret Voltaire creep, but Spoon never quite allow the tension to boil down or over. The trio of Daniel, Eno, and bassist Joshua Zorbo are airlock-tight, sliding from near-hushes to slashing crescendos and back as smoothly as a single hand twisting a dial.

If Spoon were never precisely hostile to making hits, they seldom chased them either, which may go some ways toward explaining why they never truly blew up despite the fact that Daniel checks a lot of the boxes you’d need checked to be a bonafide rock star. The magnetism he displays on record has never perfectly translated to the stage, and indeed, Spoon are less lifechanging as a live act than you might expect given their intense, spartan sound. But it’s still baffling that a tune as disarmingly romantic, as affectionate as “Anything You Want” didn’t find a place as one of the classic indie rock love songs. It’s the rare song that doesn’t beg an ex-lover to come back so much as it makes the possibility seem like a genuinely decent offer. On a record defined by moodiness, doubt, and nerves, its rolling piano and chirruping keyboard build to a climax of such sweetness it pricks at the corners of my eyes:

And now time is my time Time is my own And I feel so alive, yet I feel so alone ‘Cause you know you’re the one And that that hasn’t changed Since you were 19 and still in school Waiting on a light On the corner by Sound Exchange

Though every Spoon album since A Series of Sneaks has been at worst very good and often great, this is the one where they perfected their sound. I don’t how many hundreds of times I’ve listened to Girls Can Tell, but I’ve never tired of it and I never will as long as I love rock music. (And the title will always be ambiently terrifying, probably for reasons better shared with my therapist.)

57/365

Listen to the latest podcast from Matador that has a conversation with Paul from Interpol and Britt.

I’ve become hopelessly spoonpilled.

Britt Daniel, Spoon.