Hyped To Death
* Spoon: The Ghost Of You Lingers (5.0 mb) | Black Like Me (5.0 mb) | I Summon You (Cool) (1.5 mb) | You Got Yr Cherry Bomb (bonus) (4.0 mb)
From Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga : Merge Records : MRG295
Sometimes, as in the case with this band, you’ve just gotta believe the hype. Due to being somewhat of a contrarian, I’ve resisted listening to this band, Spoon. They’ve been hyped to death by everyone and their mother, and I just didn’t believe that they could be that good. Luckily though, I put aside my biases and decided to really give them a listen. And I’m hugely glad that I did.
“Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” builds on work that began on the band’s third album, “Girls Can Tell,” which was released in 2001. In simple terms, this is what happened: a piano. In the late nineties, after Spoon had a brief and unhappy association with Elektra (the band’s contract was terminated after it released a single album), Daniel started writing songs around rudimentary piano figures and cut back on the guitar playing. The result was minimalist but propulsive music that resembled dance music. (New Yorker)
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, released in mid-2007 is a marvelous listen. Lead dude Britt Daniel, a pretty fantastic lyricist and singer, combined with the rest of the band doing some great angular, slightly experimental, indie pop really hit a home run for me.
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