Sunday, June 17, 2007

SPOON - THE UNDERDOG


ARTIST / BAND: SPOON
SONG (MP3): THE UNDERDOG
ALBUM: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
FILE UNDER: Rock
LABEL: Merge

INFO: With a history of stellar, no-filler records, Spoon has somehow topped themselves with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, a consistently thrilling album recorded throughout 2006 in Austin by the band and Mike McCarthy (except "The Underdog," recorded in Los Angeles with Jon Brion). Spoon have been together over a decade, with one of the most unusual trajectories of any band in recent memory-and one of the best and most unique songwriters in the world. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga starts with "Don't Make Me a Target," a song that builds on Spoon's familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier Spoon hits like "Small Stakes" or "The Way We Get By."

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