Anybody else looking forward to this album being released on Tuesday? I really enjoyed their last album Gimme Fiction and I've heard a lot of great things about the new one.
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AMG Review
"Attention to detail" doesn't necessarily sound like the secret ingredient to brilliant rock & roll, but in Spoon's case, it comes second only to inspiration. Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, and company keep finding ways to challenge themselves and their listeners by working within the same basic, streamlined sonic framework they crafted on Girls Can Tell, adding a few new twists here and there with each album. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga just might be the most winning update on this approach since Girls Can Tell itself: each song is as carefully and creatively pruned as a bonsai tree, with nothing fussy or superfluous to mar the clean lines of the songwriting or arrangements. This is especially impressive considering that on this album, Spoon works with their widest array of sounds yet. Everything from kotos to chamberlains to horns straight out of Motown are fair game on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, but they're used so deftly and judiciously that they never feel like window dressing. As on Gimme Fiction, the band maps out Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga's territory within the first three tracks. "Don't Make Me a Target" is a sleek yet gritty prologue designed to draw listeners in like Fiction's "The Beast and Dragon, Adored," and its seductive pull only heightens the impact of "The Ghost of You Lingers." All pounding pianos and fleeting, fragmented verses, the song initially feels like it's all buildup and no release, but this insistent yet incomplete feeling is what makes it haunting and brilliant: its circling thoughts and echoes upon echoes feel like you're chasing the song -- or its subject -- to no avail. Even if "The Ghost of You Lingers" almost perversely avoids hooks, "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"'s homage to blue-eyed soul delivers them in abundance. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga's songs are svelte, especially compared to Gimme Fiction, yet they're far from starved. Interesting details decorate the margins of these songs, whether it's the studio chatter that revs up "Don't You Evah" or the fascinatingly fragmented lyrics of "Eddie's Ragga" ("there ain't no getting over Joanie Hale-Maier"). Jon Brion pops up bass, chamberlain, and production duties on "The Underdog," one of Spoon's bounciest, brassiest nods to classic pop in a long time, and a perfect contrast to the exotic, spooky minimalism of "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case"'s shivery kotos and Spanish guitars. Concise and lively ("Black Like Me" is as close as the album gets to a ballad), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is a remarkable blend of focus and creativity; even if Spoon's modus operandi seems overly regimented on paper, the results are just as elegant as they are fun.
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I've had the CD for a few weeks now. It's not as good as Gimmie Fiction, Girls Can Tell, or Kill the Moonlight. It's still pretty enjoyable though.
If you haven't heard Spoon, I recommend you go "get" their album Girls Can tell. It's probably their best CD.Last edited by Double Eights; 07-08-2007, 10:18 AM.Comment
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That was helpful.....
I'm looking forward to the album, probably my most anticipated album for the remainder of the year unless Radiohead decides to release their new album this year, which is doubtful. I've heard nothing but great things about the album.Comment
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I'm really looking forward to thisComment
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I'm looking forward to this as well. Also, the new Interpol album is due out on Tuesday as well - has anyone heard anything about that?Comment
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Bump. The album released today.
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Picked up both the new Interpol and Spoon albums today. Haven't gotten a chance to listen to the Spoon album yet, but the Interpol one is pretty good so far. I wouldn't say at this point that it tops either Antics or Turn on the Bright Lights, but Interpol albums require multiple listenings before being able to decide something like that. I'll report back on the Spoon album once I get through a listen.Comment
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I picked up those two as well Dmanchild. I don't think the new Interpol is as bad as a lot of people are saying, but it does seem a bit "blah"....nothing really spectacular. Certainly not as immediately catchy as Antics and it doesn't seem to create the same atmosphere TOTBL did.
I am really digging the new Spoon album, there isn't a bad track on the album(and I would hope not with only 10 songs). "The Underdog" is the catchiest thing on the album, but every song is enjoyable.Comment
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I also am not understanding the negative reaction to the new Interpol album. I think your take (not as catchy as Antics and certainly not like TOTBL) is spot on - but I've enjoyed the album during the three times I've listened to it, and I am beginning to think that it may be one of those albums that sounds better and better the more times you listen to it.
I'm half-way through listening to the Spoon album right now. So far it's been great. A bit of a different sound than on Gimme Fiction, but yeah, haven't heard a bad song yet. I'm interested to listen to the bonus CD as well.Comment
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Yeah, I've only listened to Interpol 1.5 times, but it sounds pretty good to me, I don't quite understand a lot of the negative reaction to it. But Antics wasn't received nearly as well as TOTBL and I really enjoyed Antics, so go figure.
I like the new Spoon a lot, my only real complaint is that it is so short. I couldn't find that bonus CD, they were pretty sneaky with that one, still haven't listened to it though.Comment
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I still haven't listened to the bonus disc either; 22 minutes long its 3/5 the length of the actual album!
The length of the disc isn't actually a big of a problem as I would have thought. There's a sense of completion after "Black Like Me" that shorter albums usually never have. I haven't gotten the feeling where I feel like an album still has more to offer and then it ends. With Ga x 5, I think the length is perfect as the band explores a lot of ground in ten songs and keeps the track listening lean, but powerful and I'm glad they didn't run the risk of adding tracks just to add them (usually that tends to produce some "throw aways).
As for the actual music, like I said, theres a lot of exploration going on throughout. There's horns in a couple of the songs, a lot of great funky/R&B type basslines, and then of course the interplay between acoustic and electric guitar. "Don't Make Me A Target," while not the best song on the album, does a great job of making the listener interested and drawing them in. There's an unidentifiable mystery about it, very similar to "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" off of Gimme Fiction. The rest of the album follows suit as each song acts for a contrast to the songs surrounding it making the songs, while all very close to the same level of wonderful quality, stick their heads up above the others even if its for a brief three minute period. While there isn't an immediate stand-out track ala "I Turn My Camera On," the album is full of tracks that will hook you eventually and I'm sure the songs will change for each listener. Personally, "Don't You Evah," "The Underdog" and "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case" are absolutely owning my mind at the moment. Perhaps the song that has the most "awe" inspiring potential is "The Ghost of You Lingers." The piano's continual building to an elusive climax is haunting and continues to linger on (sorry!
, and with the lyrics and left vs. right channel interplay going on, I believe once this track "clicks" it will be like a bomb going off.
Overall, an amazing album.
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