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With their 2007 album “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga,” Britt Daniel and Spoon came dangerously close to being thrust from the not-quite-popular middle ground they had inhabited for at least a decade. 2002’s “Kill the Moonlight” was a critical favorite and 2005’s “Gimme Fiction” was the album that launched a thousand soundtracks, but “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” was, perhaps inadvertently, tailor-made for success in 2007 (The stripped-down rock...
It’s hard not to look at Spoon’s new album, “Transference,” as something of a reaction to that success. “Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty,” Daniel, quoting Proverbs, begins the album. With his penchant for writing rock music about rock music, the intention to step back a bit seems clear. And throughout “Transference,” the elements that made its predecessor an instant classic—horns, conventional pop structure, songs with more that...
...shift is both regression and release. For the first time since 1998’s “A Series of Sneaks,” Daniel applies the same ferocity to his vocals as he does towards his one-chord guitar solos. “I want to show you how I love you, but there’s nothing there / I’m not standing here / Oh I’m not standing here,” he yells on “Written in Reverse,” the album’s bluntest approach...
...other end of the album’s emotional spectrum, “Out Go the Lights” finds Daniel at his most vulnerable. “There’s a picture of you / standing there in my black wig / looking like, who thinks they know who?” he laments. His frankest song since 2001’s “Anything You Want,” the nostalgic misery finds directness in small lyrical details and Jim Eno’s unbroken backbeat. The pounding “Is Love Forever?” takes...
...Schultz for an 8-6 win. It was by the same score that ITA Regional Doubles champions Nguyen and sophomore Alistair Felton beat Brigham Young’s Evan Urbina and Spencer Smith. At the third spots, Chijoff-Evans and captain Michael Hayes couldn’t win against Daniel Hwang and Georgy Batrakov, falling to the Cougar...