Spoon "Gimme Fiction"

[Zarn Ishtare]

So I am pretty sure that this is just the most awesome band ever. This album, Gimme Fiction, is about the most awesome thing that I've heard coming out of the indie scene in a good while, even topping personal favorite Say Anything and their CD "Is A Real Boy". Allot of guitar driven, soulful music, making sounds that I'd associate with the 60's rock revolution, driving forward through the mopey dissident garage rock that's been flooding the scene for a while now.


Acting as though they'd tapped the inspiration for the music revolution of the 60's, Spoon lashes forth from relative obscurity with absolutely smashing tunes, like Sister Jack, and then takes it deeper with a cut that can only be called I Summon You. In a scene where whiny discordance and doom and gloom prophecies are the regular fodder, Spoon does something few people can quite grasp: Be Original. Along with Say Anything, Mewithoutyou, and Showbread, this band definitely deserves a second and third look, and a place in the heart of any rocking individual, whether your poison is Classic Rock, Alt. Rock, or even Trip Hop (I know you Trip kids are into anything and everything), this Album will be deeply satisfying. Maybe it'll even make up for your ABBA collection.

[That Dude]

How are the lyrics in it? Are they pretty much clean?

[Zarn Ishtare]

I wouldn't suggest it for kids, no, but it isn't exactly something I'd call worrisome either. It really depends on your sensibilities. If you can't watch TV without being offended by all the cursing people do on regular every-day programming, then this album isn't for you, but like everything else, I think these sort of things have appropriate settings, times, and places. But that is my opinion, and my opinion alone.

[That Dude]

I'll probably keep my distance from it then...For some reason I don't really mind cussing in moderation on TV and books but I don't like it in music. So even though it sounds intriuging I'll pass.