This week's band of the week is one of those bands that had to hang around for awhile and keep pumping out kick-ass albums until people finally figured out that they were making some kick-ass music. However, this probably worked out for the better, as the band just kept getting better and better, chasing that dream, and now they're just like freakin' amazing and people just couldn't ignore them anymore. The band of the week is...SPOON!!!
Originally just a recording project between singer Brit Daniels and drummer Jim Eno, Spoon's production-perfect classic poptimist songs attracted a large fan base to the band over time. Ever since 2001's Girls Can Tell, in particular, the group has been a critical favorite and an essential item of notice for any self-respecting hipster or indie audiophile.
And while all the groups post-millennial albums, Girls Can Tell, Kill The Moonlight and Gimme Fiction, have all been solid albums in their own right, it wasn't until 2008's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga that the group truly made what may be their masterpiece. With seemingly off-hand ease, Daniels's delivers one explosive, ridiculously catchy song after another. Picking highlights off the thing is hard, simply because everything sounds so amazing. "The Underground" might be the obvious kick-in-the-face single, with Jon Brion's wonderful horn laden production making it stand out from the rest of the album, but is it really a better song than the gloriously dark "Don't Make Me A Target"? Or the haunting "Ghost Of Your Lingers", the Spector-gone-Urban Outfitters of "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb", the lithe, biting "Finer Feelings"?
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is one of those albums that pop lovers hope for all their lives, that they search for online, in old record bins, in books and magazines, but only find once in a while. But that "once" makes everything worth it. And that's why Spoon is the band of the week.
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God I love The Underdog
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