Hot Thoughts
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Spoon stay in their well-earned lane but tweak the formula just enough on their ninth album, keeping their reliably great songwriting and adding new, electronic textures.
Explaining Spoon’s rise to fame is easy if you break down its songwriting. On first listen—or the 10th, really—its material sounds simplistic because it’s exactly that. Learning Spoon songs isn’t difficult, but replicating Spoon songs is hard. The subtleties and delivery, like Britt Daniel’s hoarse scratch on the tail…
Whether Hot Thoughts is Spoon's best record is difficult to say - and that's the point. Spoon want you to debate that with yourself.
The critical darlings take another smart, subtle and stylish step forward on 'Hot Thoughts'. Get the NME verdict
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'Hot Thoughts' by Spoon album review by Adam Williams. The full-length comes out on March 17th via Matador Records. Spoon play this week at SXSW.
In parts of Hot Thoughts it seems like Spoon are angling to write the title theme for the next James Bond flick.