Trying to catch up on things we've missed.
Music: Almost every review one reads for Spoon's new album says something along the lines of "Spoon is a band that's always gotten a lot out of a little, so it's hard to imagine them stripping their sound down even more." I thought everyone was using the line because it was an easy way to review the album-- kind of like how blogging is an easy way to fake being a journalist--but the album really is a stripped down Spoon, proving that hard economic times cause even musicians to tighten their belts and ration out their melodies. The sparseness of Transference makes one truly appreciate the passing moments that are filled with sound, layers, and echoes, and maybe that's what Transference is: the echo of one's emotions traveling outside the body. The space one can hear in this album can make a one bedroom apartment feel as vast as a canyon. Buy it. Enjoy it. Try and not get lost in it.
3 comments:
if every blogger copies a journalist, then every music blogger copies pitchfork. can't figure this spoon album out. good thing i only paid $3.99 on amazon.
January 21, 2010 at 8:45 PMI can't quite pin it down either, which I think is why I keep listening to it. There other stuff left no doubt--you will like this...and this I don't know...it's a strange flirtation where you wonder "do I like this?" and then I find myself thinking about it later, at work or wherever...i just described myself having a crush on an album
January 21, 2010 at 9:49 PMmaybe i like this new one just cause it's got me going back through all of Spoon's old stuff, which had fallen off my current playlists, and i'm grateful to the new one for getting me to dust off all their other stuff
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