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The new EP from the Austin, TX trio SPOON
is called LOVEWAYS (Merge Records).
Their previous releases from the Matador,
Elektra and Saddle Creek
labels have garnered massive press and student radio acclaim in
the U.S. With a stripped down, reverb-heavy approach that owes equal
debts to classics and the obsure, tuneful and otherwise, Spoon’s
Britt Daniel continues to establish
himself as one of the American Underground’s most original
and idiosyncratic voices.
Paired with longtime drummer Jim Eno,
Daniel has led Spoon through a series of different incarnations,
an abortive major label deal, and a growing catalog of self-penned
treasures that cannot be easily surmised with the words “pop”
or “punk”, despite the best efforts of many (see beleow).
“A Series of Sneaks laid to waste
anything even remotely ‘alternative’. Stringing together
a batch of short, sharp bursts of angst, jagged as broken glass
and as unsettling as a homicide…hands down, the album of the
year.”
---- Raoul Hernandez, The Austin Chronicle
"…all the sounds of crushed
fury and longing…a balance of compassion and blame and guilt
and impatience that sounds creepily like Kurt Cobain will --- once
he’s dug up and unplugged again.” --- Camden Joy, Village
Voice
"A spoonful of sugary hooks helps
the vitroil go down…jittery like Wire, brutally tuneful, playfully
off-kilter, Spoon has distilled the pop punk essentials into classics
all their own.” -- Ray Rogers, Interview
“distinctive masters of American punk-pop…the kind of
disarming talents that make most bands seethe with jealousy.”
-- Richard Martin, CMJ
“Three years after A Series Of Sneaks was released, it only
sounds better and better. If Spoon never go platinum, it won’t
be for lack of talent or the ability to bottle magic. This music
is a kind of code. I dare you to crack it.” -- Michael Goldberg,
Sonic Net
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