Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
Texas based indie pop outfit Spoon emerged in 1993 and have driven their own niche into the annals of rock ’n’ roll from their initial post punk sound, through dance rock to stripped down ballads, from the original days of being the underground press darlings to one of the genre’s premier commercially and critically acclaimed alternative rock acts. They have drawn comparisons to everyone from The Pixies and Sonic Youth to Elvis Costello and Tom Petty.
The bedrock of their sound is the result of a long time collaboration between drummer/engineer Jim Eno and guitarist/vocalist Britt Daniel, their sound lies at the junction where classic rock and roll songwriting intersects with bold production choices and a uniquely experimental approach to mixing and arrangement. ‘Hot Thoughts’ is the bands ninth album, from a successful and consistent back catalogue of work. and reunites the band with Matador, the label that released their 1996 debut, Telephono, and was co-produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann.
According to the Matador site: “‘Hot Thoughts’ is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. That’s not to say ‘Hot Thoughts’ doesn’t have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but there’s a lyrical bent that’s as carnal as it’s crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genresmasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated."
Produced by Dave Fridmann and back with Matador (third time’s the charm) helps position Spoon to mount the highest highs of their already spectacular career. We are overjoyed to be back in the Spoon business and in time for Britt Daniel’s spot in the pantheon of rock’s genius songwriters was well-established way back — with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on ‘Hot Thoughts’, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It’s pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus.”
Spoon always delver dance-rock in it’s finest state guaranteed to us hipsters wiggling our hips.