New single from the upcoming album came out digitally about half an hour ago. It’s called “Written In Reverse,” and it’s amazingly good. Lots of Spoon songs feature heavy, simple, percussive grooves, but they’ve never sounded quite so hysterical and manic before. It helps that Britt Daniel spends the chorus screaming at the top of his lungs in a way he hasn’t done since their early, wish-we-were-the-Pixies records. They seem to be abandoning the chilled-out, quietly scathing sarcasm of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga et al. in favor of something more desperate, and generally much better.
If the rest of the album is like this track and “Got Nuffin,” then Transference will be Spoon’s best album.
UPDATE: Listen here.
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