Spoon - Gimme Fiction (2005)

[DudeAsInCool]

Spoon - Gimme Fiction

Merge, 2005

rating: 5/5

reviewer: tamec

http://www.mergerecords.com

styles: indie rock

others: Guided by Voices, Interpol, Pavement, Pixies, Elvis Costello

So Spoon has done it again, and perhaps better than they'd ever done it before.Gimme Fiction is the band's fifth full-length since their 1996 Matador debutTelephono, and it is phenomenal. Frontman Britt Daniel has always had an ear for quality, and each Spoon record -- yes, including Telephono, which still sounds significantly rawer than the rest of the band's catalog -- has had the markings of a man who knows how to keep filler out of his recordings. What makes Gimme Fictionsuch a pleasant surprise is not, therefore, how good it is in comparison to rest of Spoon's output, but how it goes about being so good.

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/musicreviews/s/spoon.htm

[wingnut2600]

Mmmm... new Spoon album good. Me like fiction... gimme' gimme'!