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Spoon – Hot Thoughts (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 7, 2023 · Comments off

“Hot Thoughts” is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. That’s not to say “Hot Thoughts” doesn’t have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but there’s a lyrical bent that’s as carnal as it’s crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genresmasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated.

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Spoon – They Want My Soul (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 7, 2023 · Comments off

They Want My Soul is Spoon’s most straight-up, direct and concise rock album ever; a certain “return to form” as a straight up American rock band, and a restoration of Spoon’s trademark authority, confidence and swagger. The music runs a gamut from AC/DC-esque guitar-driven songs like the opener “Rent I Pay” to stunning cosmic space disco tracks like “Outlier” to delicately pensive album standout “Inside Out”.

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Spoon – Gimme Fiction (Deluxe Reissue) (2005/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 7, 2023 · Comments off

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Spoon classic, Merge will release a deluxe limited-edition version of Gimme Fiction on double-LP (180g) and double-CD. The reissue contains the album remastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, nine additional bonus tracks via digital download, and a full-color book containing photos and an extensive oral history of the making of the album. The deluxe LP package will also include a 24” x 36” poster.

Gimme Fiction dragged the sonic pointillism of Kill the Moonlight further into dub-influenced weirdness as the increasingly confident Spoon went crazy in the studio, experimenting with everything from warped hip-hop samples to horse whinnies. How all this directionless Dylan worship and psychedelic goofing resulted in an album as sharply realized as Gimme Fiction is a testament solely to Spoon’s self-assurance and tastefulness (and some hard work, and a bit of luck, etc.). Whatever digging or strange alchemy had to go into it, they only produced more gold.

Gimme Fiction deserves special recognition because it’s the album where Spoon—backed into a corner—took some crazy leaps, all of them forward. It’s a “departure point” for a band that, lucky for us, has never made a real departure. And when it came time for a reissue, we knew it deserved a lasting place on vinyl, right alongside every other indispensable record in Spoon’s discography.

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Spoon – Lucifer On The Sofa (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · September 5, 2023 · Comments off

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Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two years – both in and out of lockdown – these songs mark a shift toward something louder, wilder, and more full-colour. From the detuned guitars anchoring “The Hardest Cut,” to the urgency of “Wild,” to the band’s blown-out cover of the Smog classic “Held,” Lucifer on the Sofa bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up a packed room. It’s an album of intensity and intimacy, where the music’s harshest edges feel as vivid as the directions quietly murmured into the mic on the first-take. According to frontman Britt Daniel, “It’s the sound of classic rock as written by a guy who never did get Eric Clapton.” TRACKLISTING Held The Hardest Cut The Devil & Mister Jones Wild My Babe Feels Alright On The Radio Astral Jacket Satellite Lucifer On The Sofa
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Spoon – Memory Dust EP (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 1, 2023 · Comments off

Spoon have announced a new EP: Memory Dust is out June 13 via Matador. It features three songs that began during the same sessions that produced Spoon’s 2022 album Lucifer on the Sofa. Check out the new single “Sugar Babies,” plus the band’s upcoming tour dates alongside the Black Keys and Weezer, below.

In addition to “Sugar Babies,” the EP features a song called “Silver Girl” and a cover of Bo Diddley’s “She’s Fine, She’s Mine.” Following the release of Lucifer on the Sofa, the group released a full-length dub record called Lucifer on the Moon.

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Spoon – Lucifer on the Moon (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · December 29, 2022 · Comments off

Moon flips Lucifer on the Sofa’s rhythm tracks inside-out, and often rebuilds them wholesale. Sherwood supplied extensive additional instrumentation via ON-U’s extended family of session players, including bassist Doug Wimbish and drummer Keith LeBlanc (both of whom performed in Sugarhill Records’ early ’80s in-house rhythm section). He dug deep into the album’s multi-tracks, surfacing forgotten details and elements not present in the final album mixes.

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