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There's a perfect song on Gimme Fiction, the new album from the chronically underrated Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon. It's called I Summon You, and its narcotic powers are such that only after you have pressed the repeat button for the sixth or seventh time will it occur to you that there's not a single original thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight...
Spoon, which is mostly singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Britt Daniel, along with drummer Jim Eno (although friends drop by to help out on this release), has made four satisfyingly simple albums since 1998, but Gimme Fiction marks a high point in the group's unfussy minimalism. I Turn My Camera On is so basic that someone receives a credit for finger snapping--and deserves it. Yet the bass groove at its core is buoyant and hooky enough on its own to create what could be the first disco chain-gang song. They Never Got You starts with another bass...
...from an excess of feeling, not an absence of it (think of the difference between Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum), and his cadence makes words feel hard earned and universal. Being beaten down by love is an old act, of course, but then so is rock 'n' roll. Gimme Fiction has an amazing way of making both feel new. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...then he had died.” During Stegner’s life, Kumin says, “our paths never crossed.” At one point, the two writers’ career trajectories did come quite close to intersecting. Stegner won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1972; Kumin won the Pulitzer for poetry the following year...