As Spoon gets ready for release next week (Jan. 19) of its seventh album, "Transference", the popular indie rock quartet have announced a headlining tour. By Michael D. Ayers As Spoon gets ready for ...
In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over ...
It was way back in June that Spoon released Got Nuffin, a brief collection that gave us our first taste of Transference via the dusky, percussive rocker that gave the EP its name. A couple of weeks ...
If you aren’t already a Spoon fan, Transference won’t be an easy album to fall in love with. It’s one of those “difficult” releases that critics like me claim to love because it makes us feel superior ...
In more traditional and sentimental hands the titleTransferencecould be some sort of snooty way for a musician to reference a busted love and a new love. With Spoon, transference is more an operating ...
Whenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon – which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit – the one word that always comes to mind is “punctuation.” No other band we can think of consistently crafts ...
As Spoon gets ready for release next week of its seventh album, "Transference," the indie rock quartet has announced a headlining tour. By Michael D. Ayers, Billboard, The Associated Press NEW YORK — ...
Spoon‘s seventh studio album, “Transference,” strikes a balance between its early angsty indie-rock and the soulful deconstructed pop of its 2007 release, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.” The battered piano… By ...
John Peel's description of the Fall - "always different, always the same" - might equally apply to the Austin, Texas band Spoon, who have made it to seven albums without any significant variation in ...