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| From | kcronin <fiatluxury@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Spoon |
| Date | Fri, 27 May 2005 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT) |
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i actually have a hard time coming up with someone
Spoon sounds like, which is one of the reasons i like
them - and to judge from the schizophrenic nature of
the reviews I've read, it doesn't sound like anyone
else pegs them clearly either. I guess they are for
me like The Shins and Constantines and to some extent
the Bigger Lovers; that is to say, broadly Indie Rock
but specifically so narrow a category as to include
only themselves. (So all 4 of them fall into one
category as being in a class by themselves? Oh, humor
me, I went to bed late last night.)
Where most of the time the music does not rawk, per
se, it can on occasion (I believe the radio hit 'round
these parts was "Jonathan Fisk" from Kill the
Moonlight? and it hums along nicely.) Most other
times, I like em because the melodies are pretty and
the lyrics marry them nicely; it seems to be artful
without being arty, or full of artifice (Bob, I'm
afraid I shall forever assume your standard of musical
greatness is rawk, as in the NYC IPO Shazam show a few
years back - whoo!) While admittedly singer Brit
Daniels sometimes sounds like he's got an ice cube in
his mouth and has some other vocal tics which may
otherwise prove worrisome, and in his live
performances he isn't exactly a dynamo of showmanship,
the couple times I have seen him he seems out to give
a good, accurate accounting of the songs. If his
shows are somewhat workmanlike, the music at least has
more of an artisan's touch.
I don't have the new one yet, but will be getting it;
it seemed that he was moving gracefully into more
mature songwriting, maybe ever-so-slightly country
twinged in the same way "odelay" was; maybe Beck is a
good comparison, for as much as that helps considering
how all over the board Beck is (I Turn My Camera on
from the new one has that funk n falsetto that once
upon a time meant Prince, but now means Beck, at least
for white boys who aren't the Scissor Sisters, who are
stealing it right from Elton John who stole it from
barrelhouse blues? But that's neither here nor
there.)
Meanwhile, Bob, I recommend you check out the snippets
on mp3.com: these are my favorites -
jonathan fisk
the way we get by
lines in a shirt
take a walk
and you can go onto iTunes for snippets of the new
stuff - alas, neither place has the ep Loveways, which
has the first song I heard on www.3wk.com back in the
day: Figures of Art. Still a favorite for me, but
maybe only for sentimental reasons.
me, I'd go see em. But then, Stewart's succinct and
Stewartly review takes the opposite view. If you go,
tell us what you thought!
-kelly
steveie wonder "if you really loved me"
--- bob_hutton@standardlife.com wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I've heard a few of you on Audities batting this
> name back and forward.
> Can you describe how they sound? They are playing
> Toronto on Sunday 5th
> June, so it might be worth taking in their show
> while I am there
> (incidentally the listings site I looked at had them
> playing in two venues
> - Opera House and Lee's Palace - on the same day at
> the same time, does
> anyone know which is correct?)
>
> Bob
>
>
arma non servant modum
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