Spoon - Gimme Fiction
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Artist: SpoonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- Beast And Dragon, Adored
- Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
- I Turn My Camera On
- My Mathematical Mind
- Delicate Place
- Sister Jack
- I Summon You
- Infinite Pet
- Was It You
- They Never Got You
- Merchants Of Soul
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Free Music Review: The finest silverware in the drawer
Hit: 5 Stars
My first real discovery of Spoon came from the movie Stranger Than Fiction, where, at the very start, Britt Daniel's piano happily bounces alongside Will Ferrell as he furiously and methodically brushes his teeth. (If you haven't seen this movie, you need to.) The song "The Way We Get By," even minus the vocals, as heard in the movie, was irresistible to me and I had to discover more of Spoon.
From the get-go this album does not disappoint. It's amazingly accessible and catchy throughout. Weird song titles but unstoppable hooks. Groovy grooves, snappy beats and slickly styled singing by Daniels, who is a tremendous, diverse musician. Some of the songs on "Gimme Fiction" contain a lulling feel with not much change-up throughout. "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" is a nice choice to open the CD, mellow and a touch foreboding. The peppier tune that follows, "Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine," is classic Spoon and more indicative of what's to come. Following that song, "I Turn My Camera On" is, quite simply, an ultra-cool, even seductive dance tune with good bass work and a slice of electric guitar for a rockin' effect.
"My Mathematical Mind," also found on the tremendous Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack (where Spoon has three other tunes), is similar in style to "The Way We Get By." It's full of piano, pleasantly tuneful and features cool lyrics. Spoon are adept at switching up their sound, and everything remains nonstop catchy. "Sister Jack" could be a great Wallflowers or Wilco tune, while "I Summon You" reminds me a bit of Blur or even a modern Beatles. Despite wherever the band may get its many influences, which includes pure dance and R&B-type stuff ("Was it You"), the creative guys in Spoon definitely possess their own unique vibe and sound.
If there's a dull or unlistenable track on "Gimme Fiction," I sure can't find it. This band is worth the hype it receives. Spoon seem to go about making music with a real sense of joy, which I base on the songs, of course: In the final analysis, each song is simply a lot of fun.
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Gimme Fiction is Spoon's loosest, most eclectic effort yet. While still sounding like themselves, the Austin-based band manages to evoke a number of other artists on their fifth full-length. (It's a neat trick.) On proto-glam opener "The Beast and Dragon, Adored," Britt Daniels channels the David Bowie of The Man Who Sold the World. Then there's slinky jam "I Turn My Camera On," where he conjures up Prince or Mick Jagger, circa "Miss You," by singing in a higher register. As indicated by the title, "Sister Jack" sounds like early Who (i.e. "Happy Jack"), while "They Never Got You" sounds like Plastic Ono Band-era John Lennon. Do all these different styles hang together? For the most part: yes. After the triumph of Kill the Moonlight, Spoon could have easily rested on their laurels and issued another album just like it, but Gimme Fiction proves they would rather evolve than stagnate. --Kathleen C. FennessySpoon make some of the catchiest, most confident rock 'n' roll of any group around. Their fifth full-length is nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career. "Gimme Fiction" is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition.
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