Spoon do a smooth down-tempo and echoing take on the British proto-goth punks 1979 Machine Gun Etiquette opener/all-around beloved anthem “Love Song” for Starbucks’ newest Sweetheart compilation. It’s the third volume of the series and also finds Jose Gonzalez handling Kylie Minogue, Yo La Tengo imprinting the Zombies, and James Mercer and his brother Robert doing Bob Dylan’s “Spanish Harlem Incident.” For folks who’ve been saying Transference wanders without enough payoff, but never step foot in Starbucks, here’s Brit digging into an immediate (and now balladic) hook. Listen at HypeM.
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Y’know, after stuff like this, I have to wonder why people worry about “selling out” at all.
Personally, I don’t care. But I can’t help but notice that people give these Starbucks releases slack, but like to freak over, say, the Buzzcocks being used to sell SUVs.
FUCK this.
let’s just hope they don’t go the way of death cab and start performing at starbucks.
Artists (in any field) should never condescend to becoming nothing more than a brand booster.
Artists (in any field) should never condescend to become a mere brand booster.
The Mercer bros. inclusion makes complete sense given that brother Robert worked many years doing graphic design for Starbucks corporate.