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Rating: Strange and fascinating creature these Spoon.
Originally from Texas, they confirm with this fourth work that they are one of the most interesting entities in the indie rock scene.
Difficult by their own choice to categorize, the quartet led by the eclectic Britt Daniel, in forty minutes of disorder and creativity, manages to confuse and captivate at the same time, creating a sound tapestry that, listen after listen, becomes more and more intense and enveloping.
It's an unstable, caricatural, elusive, and melancholic rock that Spoon delivers.
The beginning with Beast and Dragon, a slow and insistent march, immediately catapults into an unstable and unreal world, where it feels like being in one of the White Duke's lounges.
But already with The Two Sides of Monsieur the rhythm changes, we open our eyes, and a bespectacled Lou Barlow appears with his unmistakable grimace.
The eleven tracks result in a bizarre and unpredictable collage of quotes, changes in direction, songs with a bad mood: Beatles and Pavement, melody and lo-fi, funky and folk, even a piano at times strengthens the melodic lines and especially the pop outbursts.
There is no shortage of Pixies school indie rock (My Mathematical Mind), who are one of the band's many points of reference, but the spectrum of influences is much wider and is often just a pretext to try new languages.
Gimme Fiction is a rock of suspended time, wrapped in a mist of subtle mystery, where it is beautiful to abandon oneself without knowing what is happening or what will happen, because trust in this case is always rewarded with vibrant emotions.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 The Beast and Dragon, Adored (04:18)
The beast and dragon, adored
You been gone so long
Where you been for so long
I went to places unknown
Rented a room
And I forgot my pen
Shook my twin
And I had to find the feelin again
Now all I need is a crew
One that can act as if
One that can slay on cue
And sneeze and sniff
Uh-huh alright
I'm going back to the water
Been landlocked too long
I got a feelin it don't come cheap
I got a feelin oh and then it got to me
It took its time a-working into my soul
I got to believe it come from rock and roll
Believe it come from rock and roll
Where did you get for so long
I been learning my scene
I been watching my friends move away
I summon my love back to me
And I went down by the seawall
That's when I knew, knew They Never Got You
Great dominions they don't come cheap
Great dominions they just want you to leave
I got the meaning the meaning sat tight
Said it's not what you expected but it could be right
I got a feelin it didn't come free
I got a feelin and then it got to me
When you don't fell it it shows they tear out your soul
And when you believe they call it rock and roll
And when you believe they call it rock and roll
02 The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine (02:58)
Every morning I've got a new chance
I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance
Cause he gets to swordfight the duke
He kidnaps the queen
And you think the score's set but you can't truly see
Til you know the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
Til you know the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
Every morning I pull on them pants
Mmm but I don't get out so much since I acquired St. Vitus dance
I turn the news on a while
I practice my scene
You think things are straight but they're not what they seem
Til you know the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
In his coat and his boots and his blackheart machine
No, no one knows the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
Every morning I've got a new chance
I want to land the part of Eddie in The Stranger Dance
He makes love to the duke
He swordfights the queen
He steals the whole show in his last dying scene
No one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
No, no one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
No one sees the two sides of Monsieur Valentine
Mmm hmmm mmm hmm hmm hmm
03 I Turn My Camera On (03:32)
I turn my camera on
I cut my fingers on the way
They way I'm slippin away
I turn my feelings off
Y'made me untouchable for life
And you wasn't polite
It hit me like a tom
You hit me like a tom
On on and on
When I turn my feelings on
I turn my feelings on inside
Feel like I'm gonna ignite
I saw them stars go off
I saw them stars go off at night
And they're looking alright
Keep on blowin up
Keep on blowin em off
Get up roll it out
Keep on showin em out
Y'hit me like a tom
It hit me like a tom
On and on a tom
I turn my camera on
I cut my fingers on the way
I feel me slippin away
I wipe my feelings off
Y'made me untouchable for life
And you wasn't polite
Y'hit me like a tom
I don't know where it's from
It hit me like a tom-tom
Here comes the flan
04 My Mathematical Mind (05:02)
I wanna change your mind
Said I wanna set it right this time
I'm looking through you
You know who you are
And planning for the apocalypse
Is not considered
Considered cool
I don't suggest it myself
But no I won't sweat
I wanna change your ways
Said I'm gonna get it right one of these days
And I'm looking through you
Riding the brakes
Bringing about the apocalypse
Is not considered
Considered cool
Still you go setting it up
But never give it a thought
Just go setting it up
My mathematical mind can see the breaks
So I'm gonna stop riding the brakes
No no no no more ride the brakes
Instead I'm gonna see your stakes
Yeah I'm gonna see the stakes
05 The Delicate Place (03:42)
I got nothing
You got something
I feel out of place
Looking through your window
Into the delicate place
Reflections stating obvious mating holds
I'll own up to you if you own up to me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
Have you got the answer
Have I yet won the part
Is this just your way of breaking my heart
Everyone denies it but they just want to be told
I'll hold if for you if you hold it for me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
The delicate place
The questions it raise
The delicate place
I got nothing
You got something
I feel out of place
Looking through that window
Into the delicate place
I'll own up to you if you own up to me
I'll picture for you if you picture for me
The delicate place
The questions it raise
The delicate place yeah
The delicate place yeah
The delicate place yeah
06 Sister Jack (03:35)
Always on the outside always looking in
I was in this drop D metal band we called Requiem
And they'd say relax
But I can't be a man this far down on the map
I was sold for suspect drawings
Underneath a makeshift awning
Now I'm yours
Know I'm here
Read it all front and back
But I can't relax
With my knees on the ground and a stick in my back
Sister Jack
I was on the outside
I was lookin in
I was in a drop D metal band we called Requiem
And I can't relax
With my knees on the ground and a stick in my back
Sister Jack
No I can't just relax
Knowing that you're coming back
Sister Jack
07 I Summon You (03:55)
Remember the weight of the world
It’s a sound that we used to buy
On cassette and 45
And now this little girl
She says will we make it at all
800 miles is a drive
Yeah you got the weight of the world coming down like a mother’s eye
And all that you can
All that you can give is a cold goodbye
The law enforcement’s impressed you’ve survived to this age
Strapped-up soldiers
They’ll lock you in a cage without a goodbye
For a nickel bribe
But aww no where you are tonight
And how’d we get here
It’s too late to break it off
I need a release
The signal’s a cough
But that don’t get me off
I summon you to appear my love
Got the weight of the world
I summon you here my love
Remember the weight of the world
It’s a sound that we used to buy
And all that you can
All that you can give is a cold goodbye
The law enforcement’s impressed you’ve survived to this age
Strapped-up soldiers
They’ll lock you in a cage without a goodbye
For a nickel bribe
But aww no where you are tonight
And how’d we get here
It’s too late to break it off
I need a release
The signal’s a cough
But that don’t get me off
I summon you to appear my love
Got the weight of the world
I summon you here my love
The signal’s a cough but that don’t get me off
I summon you here my love
08 The Infinite Pet (03:56)
Hung up and bent on a stranger
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
Now I can't get near it
Don't want to hear it
My cover's blown
I walked in the rain like a drone
All the way to Marquette
The infinite pet
I got something to tell you
Far outside the black and white
Aw I got something I want to tell you
But who will receive it tonight
When I got up I cut my neckrug off
Resigned my name to the ranks of the blamed and the scoffed
Cursing the day I met
The infinite pet
Comes when you pirouette
Hung up and bent on a stranger
Just trying to swing a full-time ride
I never knew the cold hand of danger
Til I met this one and took it inside
I sat back I put my neckshirt on
Resigned myself to the fate of the failed and the conned
Just like that day I met
The infinite pet
Cheaper than all your threats
Comes when you pirouette
The the the the infinite pet
The infinite
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