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Spoon's most mature, accomplished work to date and a fine balance of fire and polish.
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Austin's favorite trio dishes out eleven helpings of diverse alt-pop on what may wind up being the finest record of its ilk all year. Charged by song sculptor/frontman Britt Daniel, this start-to-finish triumph never underachieves even if it has an effortless aura at times.
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90Spoon's 1998 album, A Series of Sneaks, was a near-perfect blend of elementary rock, sharp lyrics, and hooky melodies. On the band's just-released follow-up album, Girls Can Tell, the group manages to build upon the greatness of its previous effort.
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90At 36 minutes, Girls Can Tell packs more hooks than most bands fit into their entire discography... This is truly one of the most intense pop records since This Year's Model.
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80Spoon's most ambitious album is also their best.
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Their music is as strong as ever and they certainly deserve your attention.
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80Girls Can Tell is more mature and accomplished, but at the expense of the spark of spontaneity.
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80A collection of near perfect (and brief, yes!) lo-fi pop tracks that openly mine the sonic groundwork laid by The Cars, Squeeze and even Led Zeppelin.
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80A near-masterpiece.... It's hip and urgent, formal and exhilarated, everything guitar pop aspires to today. [Dec 2001, p.118]
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Spoon deliver everything with a calm, classy Motown-pop feel, but the disc still crackles with punk intensity... [#154, p.97]
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80Continues to mine the same sparkling vein of crushed-velvet pop/punk Spoon has perfected as its stock in trade. [#49, p.91]
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Girls Can Tell abandons some of the more familiar modern-rock tendencies of Spoon's previous albums, favoring the ambitious structures of art-rock and offering an impressive meeting place between traditional new wave and the abrasive, angular qualities of Wire and Magazine.
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75Spoon is the best British band to come out of Austin, Texas.
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Girls' melding of new wave and indie pop literally sounds timeless... [3/9/2001, p.82]
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70Perverse as it may seem, this album is more tightly arranged and crisply recorded than anything the group managed on a major label; in fact, it's a small masterpiece of home production, with Eno's economical drumming framing stabs of rhythm guitar and precisely placed daubs of vibes and viola.
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BobR10o_o;; a strokes comparison... how odd. Anyway, this album is full of surprises.