Spoon: The Way They Get By
Bud Scoppa, Paste, 1 April 2005
LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT from the beginning: I am mad about this band — have been ever since someone (can't remember who but thanks a bunch) loaned me a copy of then-new Kill the Moonlight in 2002. It was love at first listen. I respond to understatement, real singing and songs that cleverly get to the hook, but the hook itself is essential. Spoon has all that, plus zero extraneous stuff — everything this band puts into a track is there for a reason. The band has taken what I love about music, from The Beatles to Marvin Gaye, and boiled it down to its essence.
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