In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spoon “Transference” Merge Ever since 2001’s “Girls Can Tell,” the Austin, Texas, foursome Spoon has been making the most of a minimalist approach to spiky, Brit-punk-influenced rock ’n’ roll.

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 ...

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 ...

The band Spoon is a bit of a rarity in rock music — both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. But it took more than a decade for Spoon to get there. The band came together in Austin, ...

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, ...