Thursday, July 19, 2007

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Hey, ho - the new Spoon album is just as excellent as the last three (that being as far back as I've got in the spoonography)...this is good news. I reckon that the best songs on the album are "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" and "Rhythm & Soul"; in a different way, "The Ghost Of You Lingers" is particularly ace too; "Finer Feelings" also fun, stealin' some licks from Dismemberment Plan I fancy. Not sure what I think about the trumpet-laden "The Underdog", which is a bit 'Spoon does latter-day Belle and Sebastian' - not that this is necessarily a bad thing, you understand...I'm just not sure. More than anything else, of course, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is, from its title onwards, just Spoon through and through - hey presto.