In more traditional and sentimental hands the titleTransferencecould be some sort of snooty way for a musician to reference a busted love and a new love. With Spoon, transference is more an operating ...

Whenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon – which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit – the one word that always comes to mind is “punctuation.” No other band we can think of consistently crafts ...

Spoon, the Austin, Texas quartet, has just released its seventh album, called Transference. An indie band on a small record label, Spoon has gained widespread familiarity by having its songs played on ...

More than most bands shuffling around the indie circuit, Austin’s erstwhile Spoon (frontman Britt Daniel now resides in Portland) usually understands the value of tension and space. On their latest ...

The best spoon songs grab you immediately, dancing a quickstep on your eardrums and enveloping you in infectious rhythms. They are short, to-the-point and utterly irresistible - indie guitar rock at ...

NPR is streaming Spoon’s new album, Transference, a full week before its release. The record comes out on January 19, but you can check out the whole thing now. Transference is the first album the ...

Like all of Spoon’s past albums, “Transference” breaks from previous efforts toward a new direction. The direction is a collage of the song structures of “Gimmie Fiction,” the instrumentation from “Ga ...

Spoon's winning streak just keeps going. After releasing four consistently exceptional albums in The Aughts - "Girls Can Tell," "Kill the Moonlight," "Gimme Fiction" and the mainstream breakthrough ...

Enough with the deconstruction already. It has served Spoon tremendously well for 16 years and seven albums now, this urge to strip their sharp, brash, stylishly grouchy mod-rock down to its rawest, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Perfectionism and rock‘n’roll don’t tend to go hand in hand. For a style that relies on impromptu ...