HOT THOUGHTS

Vinyl LP pressing including digital download. 2017 release. Hot Thoughts, SpoonAEs ninth album, is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their career, though keep in mind, Britt DanielAEs already overseen a number of other reincarnations. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. ThatAEs not to say Hot Thoughts doesnAEt have a requisite supply of infectious earworms but thereAEs a lyrical bent thatAEs as carnal as itAEs crafty, and a newfound sense of sonic exploration that results in the genre-smasher Spoon have flirted with in the past but not fully consummated. Produced by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips, Weezer, MGMT) and back with Matador (third timeAEs the charm) helps position Spoon to mount the highest highs of their already spectacular career. We are overjoyed to be back in the Spoon business and in time for DanielAEs spot in the pantheon of rockAEs genius songwriters was well established a ways back u with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on Hot Thoughts, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. ItAEs pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus.'