Girls Can Tell

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Such is the case with Spoon; their perennial indie rock underdog status and disastrous stint on Elektra have focused and tempered the trio's brash energy instead of crushing it.

By the time Girls Can Tell—their third overall album and Merge debut—came out in 2001, Spoon had already been through several labels, most recently Elektra (chronicled hilariously on “The Agony of Lafitte”) and little was expected.