Spoon's new album Transference comes out next week, but you can now listen to the whole thing from NPR here. I just played it for the first time and am very happy with it. It is not perhaps their best album, but Kill the Moonlight probably has that locked down anyway. I was rather relieved, because I was talking to Seth about the album the other day and we were afraid that it could be sub-par, just because they haven't really ever made a bad album. The album is generally more laid back than Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, probably more similar in overall tone to Gimme Fiction. Britt Daniel does use his voice to do some things he hasn't done before, this may be Spoon's best as far as vocals go. I can't really talk about it that much, it tends to take me quite a while with an album before I can analyze it at all.
Spoon also just released American tour dates. They are going to be in both Minneapolis and Chicago . . . over spring break. Drat. I really wanted to see someone live this semester, and NO ONE is touring in America out of the bands I want to see live. At least Radiohead is in the studio, so music for 2010 should not disappoint.
