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: Gimme something to look forward to
Hit: 5 Stars
2002 was a breathtaking year in music - we saw the life-changing advent of Interpol, the glorious manifestation of Beck's sadness, the amphetamine tremors of Hot Hot Heat, the face-breaking fury of Trail of Dead, to name a few. We also saw a record by a band that got dropped from their label a few years back to little fanfare, a record whose simplicity and crackling execution dropped jaws across the country. That album was Spoon's "Kill the Moonlight," and there's a reason I listed all those bands above - their follow-ups induced shoulder-shrugs and sighs from fans whose hopes had been neither dashed nor fulfilled.
Gimme Fiction is not one of those albums. Gimme Fiction is the best album of 2005 so far, the best follow up to any of 2002's indie superhero successes. It's a "most" album for Spoon, the most diverse album that Spoon has ever put together, the most coherent (hell, the opening track subtly introduces every subsequent song) and the most mature, by far. "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" continues Spoon's cat-and-mouse alternation between thunderous melody and near silence. "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" is their best piano ballad so far, thankfully short enough to not wear out its welcome. "I Turn My Camera On" is a musical vacuum filled only by a chugging one-two bass line and a beautifully sparse rhythm section.
"My Mathematical Mind" is the second best song on the album, a track that opens with keys not dissimilar to songs from 2001's Girls Can Tell. However, whereas Spoon used to be all about repetition, they've discovered the art of progression. This song manages to build from its opening simplicity into a thundering inferno of loose drumming and guitar tectonics, and its final explosion is entirely sublime. The dark first half of the album culminates in "the Delicate Place." This song is inhabits the same moody twilight as songs like "Paper Tiger," except it starts from nothing and turns into something by the end - it turns into all-out rock fireworks. It's one of Spoon's best songs yet.
The second half opens with two startlingly sunny numbers that surprise and delight: "Sister Jack" and "I Summon You." From there Gimme Fiction plunges back into moodiness with "The Infinite Pet" and "Was it You," the former featuring a chunked-up riff and the latter being entirely in keeping with Spoon's minimalist sensibilities. "They Never Got You" is probably too long, but its droning, muted bass and '80s handclaps play background music to what sounds like e-bow action on the guitar. The album closes with "Merchants of Soul." It's not so theatrical a closer - it's just a good Spoon song, spacious and punctuated with stabs of piano and viola.
Somewhere Elektra records is kicking themselves for having dropped Spoon in 1999, and somewhere Britt Daniel is hopefully relaxing with the knowledge that not only has his band recovered from the "tough break handjob" that almost ended their careers, they've put out three absolutely stellar albums in a row. Gimme Fiction is an album that encourages fans to let fly their unabashedly high hopes that their favorite bands can only get better; it's a reason to keep liking music amid this year's acid rain of disappointing follow ups, or to keep liking music at all. The band is Spoon, the album is Gimme Fiction, and you should own it.
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Spoon 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.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. Fennessy
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