Rating 4.5/5.0
There comes a time when every good band makes terrible albums either because they don't care anymore and everyone wants to go solo (except the drummer who doesn't know where to go) or because they are experimenting with 'new sounds'. REM is a good example- they made wonderful wonderful music and then they made average stuff and then they made bad, really bad albums and now they are coming up again. Unlike REM, Spoon are yet to make a really bad album. They will soon, they should but they haven't till now. Isn't that great?
I felt a little weird when I got hooked to Spoon - the reason - I was going through a phony intellectual phase in my life where the more obscure the band, the more obtuse the lyrics, the more random the music or sound, the better it was for me and this is when I came upon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (not sure how many Ga's are there actually). I was hooked. I was ashamed of myself for liking them but I couldn't help it. This doesn't mean they don't have depth...they do! Spoon is like the girl next door who becomes a spiritual Guru just about the time when you had mustered up the courage to dismiss them in search for a higher meaning. Decoding this sentence is easy. Here it goes -
Spoon is like the
- girl next door
- she's fun and makes you laugh
- but you dismiss her as the girl next door
- and you start reading the Bhagavad Gita
- then the same day she turns into Eckhart Tolle
- love, again.
Transference is another fantastic album. Right from the sweetness and naivete of Mystery Hour to the sadness of Goodnight Laura to the fun of Got Nuffin' to the strangeness of Who Makes your money?
Allmusic Link here
buy it here - Transference
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