This picture launched by Matador Information exhibits album artwork for Spoon's 'Lucifer on the Couch.' (Matador Information through AP)
NEW YORK --
The band Spoon has taken a sonic fork within the highway and, appropriately sufficient, the primary single from their new album mentions one other piece of silverware -- a knife.
"The Hardest Lower" -- full with the road "we reside on a knife" -- roars with a darkish, grunge-meets-'70s guitar power, a sign of what is to come back from the Texas-based band on their 10-track, tenth album, "Lucifer on the Couch."
"We wished to make a rock `n' roll file, a fantastic rock `n' roll file," says frontman Britt Daniel. "I simply do not feel like there's sufficient nice rock `n' roll data being made lately."
"Lucifer on the Couch" through Matador Information is a flip towards extra muscular, minimalist basic rock, extra aggressive and rehearsed than the band's predecessor "Sizzling Ideas," the place synths have been outstanding and songs constructed on the fly.
"We all the time are inclined to need to react a bit in opposition to the file we simply did. That final file was extra of a pieced collectively file, a produced file. It was a file the place lots of instances we began recording and we did not know what the track actually was," says Daniel.
For "Lucifer on the Couch," drummer Jim Eno says Spoon tried to lean into Texas rock and early ZZ Prime, utilizing extra actual devices than results.
"The stuff that feels like a band enjoying in a room has all the time been the form of data that we grew up listening to. So it was attempting to seize a few of that," says Eno.
Daniel estimates the brand new album was two-thirds completed when the pandemic hit in March 2020. "I discovered myself with lots of alone time and I wrote much more songs. That was the factor that form of made me really feel regular through the harshest a part of lockdown," he says.
Whereas some songs the band had been kicking round for just a few years, a number of have been knowledgeable by the pandemic, together with the "The Satan & Mister Jones" a few unhealthy dude and "Wild," concerning the drudgery of life.
"We prefer to problem ourselves and never repeat ourselves," says Eno. "I really feel like some bands may have the very same system over and over, and I really feel like we attempt not to do this."
The album begins with a canopy of Smog's "Held" and chugs alongside in a rock vein till getting a bit spacey with "Astral Jacket" and "Satellite tv for pc," earlier than taking a bizarre and funky detour with the title monitor.
"The lucifer on the couch is me," says Daniel. "It is the character that I can develop into after I'm at my worst. And I believe lots of people have that very same form of character. No one is similar particular person always and at instances of misery unhealthy issues have a tendency to come back out.
"Every time I acknowledge that particular person come out, I attempt to get previous it. My method of attempting to get previous it on this track is to stand up off that couch."
Members of Spoon have currently returned to Austin full-time and Daniel says he is most having fun with listening to reside music each day.
"It is a city the place it is all about reside performances and bands which can be doing it as a result of it is enjoyable and never doing it with an eye fixed on the music business," he says. "It is the life I like."
Spoon is getting nice critiques for the brand new clutch of songs, with Rolling Stone saying it is perhaps the band's greatest file and Paste journal calling it "the sound of a band in peak kind who're pushing to get higher, go additional and resist any temptation to slack off."
That is a far cry from the times when Spoon have been dropped by Elektra Information and had problem convincing anybody to place out their "Women Can Inform" album. Daniel was suggested to alter the band's identify. It was thought of broken items.
"Perhaps that may have been the sensible factor to do, however we did not do it that method," he remembers. "We someway discovered an viewers after which labels have been extra welcome to placing out our data."
The band plans to tour with the brand new materials, kicking off reside exhibits on April 6 in Boston and ending June 4 in Phoenix. Alongside the way in which, they will make stops in, amongst different cities, New York, Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles.
Daniel and Eno are desperate to play reside once more and glad how "Lucifer on the Couch" ended up. "I believe Britt's writing the perfect songs that he is ever written," says Eno. "Whenever you're in a band with a fantastic songwriter, the whole lot can fall collectively much more simply."
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