Spoon - Hot Thoughts

Daniel has become expert at that kind of ugly strummed noise

the concert was unbelievable fun. my friend and i kept saying just when you think this can't get any better then they play a song that was even more epic then the one before. all the new songs are 10/10, well maybe not the new encore song as it was a bit mellow. the first song of the night was brand new to everyone there and it didn't disappoint. in fact i figured it would be the last song on the new album, turns out it will be the third song. "Rainy Taxi" was such a great way to end the night, so euphoric.

go if they come to town, a band at the top of their game.

their current tour isn't hitting boston, i'm bummed

I Saw the Light is such a great song, I'd love to see Spoon live again but a trip to London just to see a band is out of the question for me atm

i think this is my favorite song they've ever done

SPOON TACO

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egg over hard, gtfo

gtfi my belly

i see that taco is in Austin only.

so this has just been announced:

Belle and Sebastian • Spoon at the Hollywood Bowl

Sunday, August 6, 2017 - 7:00pm

Belle and Sebastian

Spoon

Additional artist to be announced for KCRW's World Festival 2

i have to actually go to this don't i?

Let's hear a whole record of "I Turn My Camera On"!

― yesca, Saturday, February 25, 2017 7:20 AM (one week ago)

haven't heard a spoon in ages, but this has me temptered. scale of 1-10, how disappointed will i be?

Spoon have gone New Order (read as dance), would be how i describe it on my very few listens of the new songs. after seeing them live, the songs are still quintessential Spoon. i don't think they have had a misstep yet. but this sounds like it could be one of their bests.

i also thought it was coming out on Friday but turns it's a week from Friday. Same night i'm seeing Teenage Fanclub.

it's great to be me right now!

aaaahh hearing can I sit next to you and reading bee ok's post is totally making me book the london show!

There are few artists--much less rock artists--whose announcement of a new release makes me giddy, but Spoon fits the bill. Title track / single sounds great.

I am actually anticipating a new release, guys! It feels good!! I plan to go old school with this one: gonna show up to the record store right when they open next Friday, and then spend the afternoon driving around listening to this

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/03/sxsw-2017-day-1-photos-and-recap.html

Seeing Spoon play in Austin is a rite of passage of sorts. Aside from Willie Nelson, there’s hardly a more ubiquitous Austin act these days than this four-piece fronted by Britt Daniel. Tuesday’s 1am set at The Main—formerly “old” Emo’s Austin, and unofficially re-named “Eno’s Austin” for a 3-day SXSW Spoon residency, after current drummer and founding member, Jim Eno—was an epic kick-off for many attending the music portion of the festival.

Daniel’s live delivery could easily be mistaken for a studio recording; his voice is uncanny and he masterfully lost himself in tracks from Spoon’s eight album discography (“Don’t you Evah”!), equally as much as he did in tracks from the band’s ninth studio album, Hot Thoughts (out this Friday via Matador.) While 2014’s They Want My Soul, was often spectacular, it still had an aura of experimentation, and seeing the band enact the new material on stage felt like Spoon has now fine-tuned those experiments into a fully-formed sound that could only belong to them.

South by Southwest was the best place to enact these new concepts, especially in front of a hometown crowd. The band seemed to exude a certain comfort in letting loose in front of a familiar locale, in a seemingly controlled environment. While their curated set of openers, in A Giant Dog and New Pornographers, can easily serve as the peak of a crowd’s attention for the evening, Tuesday night was all about Spoon beginning to unleash Hot Thoughts to the world, in Austin’s buzziest week. To be able to do that in an environment where every detail was exactly as Spoon had planned out, is a powerful place to be as a band, especially when they’ve been one of the tightest, most well-executed acts in independent rock and roll for more than 20 years.

i'm so ready for this!

I see from the setlist above they have abjured the ilx poll winner (and the #2). Hope they don't change it around too much, seeing them in june and would love to get 'i saw the light' and 'do you'.

i like this album quite a bit

Jim Eno’s swaggering drums

It takes a certain kind of 45-year-old frontman to sing the phrase “knock knock” and still sound at least moderately cool, not like some phony in his first pair of Ray-Bans.

a toe-tapping tune about one of those ghosts that linger in Daniel’s head

do better, Pitchfork

also, so so tired of the "this song sounds like this popular band, while this song sounds like this popular indie band; meanwhile, this song sounds like this popular band" school of music criticism

i know what i'm listening to on my way to work today.

Wow, only made it through side one but blown away. How are they this good nine albums in? Most bands die out or just go through the motions.

I don't buy music anymore but going to buy this.

On first listen I'm not enjoying this as much as 'They Want My Soul' but it's good. TWMS is just a big FM Radio drive thing with tons of hooks where this is far more groove focused.

What a great band. I've never seen them live - need to correct that.

I've only seen them live once, London in early 2010 (reasonably sure I saw ithappens in the crowd), and they were v good. I'd see them again at the drop of a hat if they came with 100 miles.

Looking forward to buying this on the way home, too, obviously.

"I Ain't the One" is a good variation on a familiar Britt Daniel trope: don't touch me. More creepy electric piano and drum machine blues, plz.

More creepy electric piano and drum machine blues, plz.

This. Every time Spoon go down this road the results are great. 'Kill the Moonlight', arguably the quintessential Spoon record, is all over this theme. I love a lot of their output but that album has a very specific approach to empty space and keyboard bits, and in my mind it is the Spoon sound most realized.

Doesn't the bass in "Shotgun" remind anyone of 'At Home He Feels Like a Tourist"?

^^ this album is very kill the moonlight

xp

was really hoping first caress is a companion piece to last caress, but its not =(

I don't care for the closing instrumental -- yet.

Shotgun sound more like "I was made for loving you" than Go4 to me.

haha -- true, 'cept Daniel would never stoop so low as to think he was made to love anyone. His schtick is to question the idea of desire.

On first listen the first half of this album is OK but the second half is great.

The chord progression in 'I Ain't the One' sounds naggingly familiar, I'm thinking '70s pop like ABBA or the Carpenters or someone.

Very keen on this after brief exposure, much more so than the last one.

this is pretty good - it's less immediate which makes me think of Transference but it's got a lot more range than that one. Transference ended up being one of my favorites but it took quite a while

"tear it down" is my favorite one that i hadn't heard already. reminds me strongly of something but i can't place it

I think this is great, can't really remember the last one.

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i had a day today but was able to listen to the second half once. this album is going to be fun to discover. two instrumentals is so strange though.

who plays the saxamaphones on 'us'?

i don't think i even bothered to listen to the last spoon album, but i had a go at this while at work on friday and it was kinda fun! "first caress" was a banger

Really liking this one on first listen, could see it becoming one of my favorites.

TWMS was the first one I never quite grew to love (Transference didn't click with me initially, but, similar to ciderpress' experience, when it did, it really did). This one's really immediate compared to the past few, without forsaking the ear candy that I know will reveal itself over repeat headphone listens.

I have so little time for rock music these days, but Spoon is one of the few bands I always make time for, mostly because their albums consistently reward this kinda loyalty. It's also why I buy their albums without needing to hear them first; there is sure to always be at least a few tracks I'll enjoy enough to want to own.

On first listen the first half of this album is OK but the second half is great

I think after one listen I feel exactly the opposite!

Then again, one listen isn't really enough to say for sure...

and I think if the album has a dud, it's "Shotgun," which takes me back to that one summer you couldn't escape "Float On" no matter where you went

I forget what a wasteland this place in on the weekends. I wanna talk about this record!!!

"us" is great, spoon going full manhunter soundtrack

Alfred and willem OTM

This is the record where I feel I can really finally commit to them as a fan, if that makes any sense, though the 2001-2014 era certainly has songs and even albums I liked.