Facebook: Spoon Day 10: Hot Thoughts (2017) True believers, we have nearly reached the end. Our final exhibit of the immersion is HOT THOUGHTS, released just over a month ago. HOT THOUGHTS debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 on...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 9: They Want My Soul (2014) It might be glib to say that Britt Daniel’s time with Divine Fits reinvigorated his Spoon, but it undeniably altered the band’s trajectory. After all, when Britt returned his focus to...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 8: A Thing Called Divine Fits (Divine Fits, 2012) (You might argue that a side project like Divine Fits does not deserve its own full day in an immersion, but I think it’s an indispensible step in...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 7: Transference (2010) After the skewed pop wonderland that was GA GA GA GA GA, Spoon confounded expectations by delivering a followup album that was half slick, half lo-fi, and entirely unsettling. (If you hear a song...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 6: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) With GA GA GA GA GA, Spoon renewed its attempts on the pop charts with a vengeance. This album is almost aggressively toe-tapping, and quite disarming throughout. It began to...  read

Happy 46th birthday to Britt Daniel! Facebook: Spoon Day 5: Gimme Fiction (2005) Having burned their sound down on KILL THE MOONLIGHT, Spoon sets about building it back up on GIMME FICTION. This album takes us to some ruminative and...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 4: Kill the Moonlight (2002) “Small stakes give you the blues, but you don’t feel taken, don’t think you’ve been used.” With that opening salvo, Britt Daniel announces in his sly way that, while there may be...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 3: Girls Can Tell (2001) Oh, dear friends, a tale of sadness have I to relate today! Remember ultraslick Elektra VP and A&R man Ron Laffitte from yesterday? The guy who made all the right promises and...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 2: A Series of Sneaks (1998) In 1997 Spoon released a somewhat more polished effort on Matador -- the SOFT EFFECTS EP. The buzz around Spoon was growing, to the point where major labels began sniffing around....  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 1: Telephono (1996) Welcome to Spoon! This is my favorite working band, and the only one that can still prod me into hauling my ass to a festival (specifically, Panorama this July on Randalls Island here in...  read