★★★★★
Taking Metacritic as our guide, it would be fair to suggest that Spoon were among the most critically acclaimed bands of the last decade as a whole. Four successive albums; 'Girls Can Tell' (2001), 'Kill the Moonlight' (2002), 'Gimme Fiction' (2005) and 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga' (2007) all comfortably received an average score of above 80, which is generally taken as the benchmark of something very impressive indeed...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Having hit the mark with laser accuracy with their 2007 LP, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Spoon's seventh album, this time recorded live in the studio, is a rawer experience in comparison. Taking its sonic cues from Jonathan Richman and Wire - particularly on Is Love Forever? and the psychedelic tint of The Mystery Zone - it feels much more like the work of a garage band...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Over the course of the past decade, Spoon have earned a reputation as one of the most meticulous and stylized studio perfectionists in rock. Their aesthetic is unmistakable-- the percussion is crisp and in-the-pocket, the instrumentation is bone dry, and tight performances get juxtaposed with moments of off-the-cuff improvisation...
- pitchfork.com
2010-12-08
★★★★★
Six albums into a career typically summed up by those not paying attention as "college rock," Spoon continues to make dazzling pop music for the rest of us. It will get a lot of attention for its weird title, but listeners engaging "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga" will be rewarded for seeing the book through the cover...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Texan indie-rockers Spoon are back after a two year absence with their new offering 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga'. Unfortunately, despite the critical acclaim that their last album 'Gimme Fiction' garnered, and their music being used in several films and television shows across the US and UK, 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga' is more a case of blah blah blah blah blah...rather disappointing and failing to deliver...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-23
★★★★★
Step into an album where melodies are loaded in by trucks, where studio production acts as its own instrument, where guitars are incisive and precise and where vocals fit the mood of each song with perfection. You're listening to a Spoon album, of course. But which one? 'Transference' is another footprint from the same pair of shoes - it makes no evidential effort to turn the Spoon sound inside out. This is an album merely bolstering an already sturdy outfit...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The '70s had Big Star, a Texas-based group who were all about the British sound. By the ministrations of a couple of staggering geniuses (and I use staggering in the "faltering" rather than "boggling" sense), Big Star managed to sound, well, sort of Brit, still American and yet wholly unlike anything else at the time...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
'Consistent' is a dangerous word to be followed by. Steady and reliable is one way to define the term. Yet who really remembers the quiet kid sitting at the front of the class, never late, always diligent, with a star next to his name for perfect attendance? Consistency breeds union and cohesion. It also breeds familiarity and expectation. At its worst, boredom. Austin, Texas' Spoon currently bears the title of America's most consistent indie rock act...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Spoon have gone the long way round. Had things been different, they would have arrived here in the late 1990s splicing their grungy pop somewhere between Kurt's old mob and the Pixies on the likes of XFM, or maybe gracing John Peel's show with one of their muddier efforts. But like many of their peers before them ? a la Pavement, R.E...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
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