Photos of Spoon at 2017 Austin City Limits Festival in Austin, TX
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Photos of Spoon at 2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX in Austin, TX
Spoon are a confident and cool band. This had been known for a while, but they’d been seen in everything from catchy mainstream appeal to more experimental darkness. 2014’s They Want My Soul (QRO review) brought their confident cool to the fore, and that continues with Hot Thoughts.
Photos of Spoon at 2010 Crossing Border Festival in den Haag, Netherlands
Photos of Spoon at Cake Shop in New York, NY on September 13th, 2010
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QRO’s review of Spoon at Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY on March 26th, 2010
Photos of Spoon at Terminal 5 in New York, NY on April 9th, 2008
Photos of Spoon at CMJ 2007 in New York, NY
QRO’s review of Spoon at Rockefeller Park in New York, NY on July 11th, 2007
Continues right from the get-go with the titular opener, with a chill frontman Britt Daniel. The best songs on Thoughts have a cool wry nature to them, but also a great beat behind, and hooky chorus/title line, such as “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” and “Shotgun”. There are more pressing moments, such as “WhisperI’lllistentohearit” or the sharper “Can I Sit Next To You”, and it ends with a saxophone-led instrumental “Us”, but it is still the cool confidence that is the core.
Admittedly fairly similar to Soul (“Tear It Down” sounds a lot like Soul’s “Outlier”, minus the anti-Garden State reference), Hot Thoughts reconfirms Spoon’s confidence and cool.