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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like all of Spoon’s past albums, “Transference” breaks from previous efforts toward a new direction. The direction is a collage of the song structures of “Gimmie Fiction,” the instrumentation from “Ga ...

Spoon plays The Moore Theatre with Deerhunter and Micachu on April 9 and 10.Band: SpoonAlbum: Transference Label: Merge Records)Release Date: Tuesday, January 19Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Buy ...

More than most bands shuffling around the indie circuit, Austin’s erstwhile Spoon (frontman Britt Daniel now resides in Portland) usually understands the value of tension and space. On their latest ...