The Sea and Cake was also a great music-medication (musication?) for me during the big 2020 pandemic. Oh it's still going on in 2021? OK I'll keep listening then.
Real Estate will always be reliable for this kind of chill, melodic, soothing kinda music, even if it follows their formula set from day 1 to the T. They're good at it, keep doing it, I don't mind. And I'll always add it to my music library.
A recent discovery of mine, LOVED Captain. I even tossed "Serotonin" on the Stereogum Weekend playlist on Spotify a couple weeks back. I thought this would be too lowkey for the Gum to cover, glad to be wrong! This song is beautiful too.
Uh... This is The Horrors? Are we sure? Hmmm... Glad it's just for an EP and not a lead single for a full-length. Faris has a great voice, why distort it like this to make it sound indistinguishable and generic? I'm gonna go listen to "Something To Remember Me By" to wash the bad taste out of my ears
If Transference were an album by any other band, it would be that band's best album. But vs. Spoon themselves... And hey I love it too, "The Mystery Zone" is a top 10 Spoon song, but as a whole it can't top Gimme Fiction, KtM, or GaX5, at the least.
Btw I know Britt gets all the (much-deserved) credit as the frontman and all, but let's give it up for Jim Eno too. In fact, I only just realized Jim himself produced one of my favorite quarantine discoveries, the 2019 album Can You Really Find Me by the band Night Moves. It is SO GOOD. Check it out if you haven't yet. Eno is a talented dude, I kinda wish he'd just product Spoon's next album if THIS is what he's capable of. "Recollections" is a brilliant song, I think I've played it 5000 times since last March. Whether it's Spoon or other bands, Jim, if you're reading this, produce more albums. Thanks.
I actually thought, for years, that I didn't like, maybe even hated Spoon (what a moron) until I finally said ya know what, let me give....Gimme Fiction... a full listen. And then I was hooked, and couldn't believe I ever thought Spoon was bad (seriously, what a moron). Since then they've been my #1 band and I don't foresee that changing. So obviously, to answer your question they should listen to Transference first.
After I myself had already decided that they were the best band of that decade, I came across the Metacritic site, and eventually saw that article, and it was just like "yeah...checks out." No one I know likes, or has even heard of Spoon, so it was a nice bit of validation. Hey I have good taste I guess!
Ahhh here it is! I knew you guys wouldn't let me down. What a timeless album. Feels like this could come out right now in 2021 and still feel fresh and new and ahead of its time.
"Radiohead had returned with just eight tracks totaling 37 minutes — not exactly a generous bounty."
Yup. And only 5 of the 8 are good! (Sorry "Bloom", "Morning Mr Magpie", and "Feral" but nah)
If it were up to me, for 2011 Anniversaries, you're missing:
Burst Apart
Lenses Alien
I Am Very Far (me, biased? what makes you say that?)
Skying
Carrion Crawler/The Dream (me, biased? what makes you say that?)
And you got Days and Dye It Blond and of course Slave Ambient, good stuff.
What about 2001? Hoping for an Anniversary article for Girls Can Tell. Still holds up! But we all know that.
We'll know soon enough if it made the cut for Anniversary material, came out Feb 20, 2001. Don't let me down 'Gum.
Great song. I loved, LOVED, Best Blues (one of the best of 2015) and can't believe it'll be 6 years since it came out. Once you get to that 4-5 year span, you wonder if the band is done for good. Thankfully not the case here!
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