Sometimes I think I spend too much time writing about Spoon

Here's my two cents on the new Spoon, published in Harp this month:SpoonGa Ga Ga Ga Ga MergePrince, whose influence held sway over Spoon’s Gimme Fiction, has been overturned like Saddam’s statue for Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. The band’s sixth full-length says goodbye to funk-sexy restraint and pushes for the wall-of-sound washes of Phil Spector. Check the way that Britt Daniels’ ghostly vocals flit from one earphone to another on weirdo centerpiece “The Ghost of You Lingers”; there’s only a staccato piano line to recall the Spoon you know. Or chew over the Supremes-esque “You Got Yr Cherry Bomb” with its cavernous tambourine beats and saxophone fills. The old Spoon is still there—in the twitchy guitars, quarter-note punching beats and Daniels’ superlatively scratchy croon—but grown up and shiny. Jon Brion had a hand in transforming Austin’s pride, producing the hand-clapped, brass-heavy “Underdog.” But mostly it’s the three principals ditching funk minimalism for Motown soul, in the band’s most eccentric, best record yet. By Jennifer Kelly First printed in Harp Jul/Aug 2007 I've written about Spoon really a lot over the years -- and no, I don't owe them money or have a secret child with the drummer or anything like that. Here are some links to stuff I've done about the band in the past.Interview on Kill the Moonlight:http://www.splendidmagazine.com/features/spoonReview of Gimme Fictionhttp://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1115028240265273A month after that, I felt compelled to write about Gimme Fiction again:http://www.neumu.net/dailyreport/2005/2005-12-12/2005-12-12_dailyreport.shtmlAnd then, as if that weren't enough, I went to a show. (It was on my birthday, more or less, and Sean and Bill came with me...neither of whom like Spoon anywhere near as much as I do.)http://www.neumu.net/dailyreport/2005/2005-11-10/2005-11-10_dailyreport.shtmlAnd finally I snagged the Soft Effects/Telephono reissue from PopMatters last year:http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/3744/spoon-soft-effects-ep-telephonoSpoon now has a PR firm that is so unhelpful that I had to illegally download Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga in order to review it. So I probably won't be interviewing Britt again anytime soon or getting guest list or whatever...but it's definitely been fun.