Holy shit. This band rocks. Seriously. The opening keyboards and simple drums had me thinking that Doo Rag had gotten back together and had picked up a violinist/guitarist… Alas, ‘twas not the case. Spoon’s 7th album, Transference, kicked my ass, took my name, and kicked it again. From the cool open to the album, to the fantastic transition between ‘The Mystery Zone’ and ‘Who Makes Your Money’, the fookin hot groove of the latter, the lyrical and piano smack-down of ‘Written In Reverse’ – “I’m writin’ this to ya in reverse. Someone better call a hearse.” F’n. Love It. While listening to this album I was visited by a vision, an epiphany, an inspired thought, whatever. What if a metric by which an album was judged was simply how many of the songs could be made into a music video staring the Beastie Boys dressed up in their ’70’s cop outfits from “Sabotage?” I think Transference would be 10 out of 11 (“Goodnight Laura” might pull it off, but it would involve Mike D and Ad-Rock kissing by a tree by a lake at sunset in those bad-ass aviator sunglasses, and I don’t think the world is ready for that yet). Ok, “Out Go the Lights” might be close, but I think an introspective 4:36 in a coffee shop with different shots of the Beasties sipping coffee and reflecting on… whatever. In the cop outfits. Sweet. Spoon!
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