SPOON - GIMME FICTION (LP)

Spoon Gimme Fiction on LP

Spoon makes some of the most artful and confident rock 'n' roll of any group around. The band's fifth full-length is nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career, an exhilarating album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition.

"Gimme Fiction is actually a wildly diverse album, almost schizophrenic in its composition, vacillating between acoustic ballads, a bubbly, synth-tinged number ("They Never Got You"), handclaps, strings, and a whole lot of blue-eyed soul. It feels like rock action only because the album's finest moments-- for the most part-- are in the sublime climaxes of guitar-driven tunes, notably the heart-swelling, tambourine-ringing relief of "Sister Jack" or the beautifully spare "I Summon You". But calling them "rock songs" feels like an oversimplification: The term implies a simplicity that just isn't present even in the most direct offerings on Gimme Fiction." --Eric Carr, Pitchfork, May 9, 2005

Spoon Gimme Fiction Track Listing:

1. Beast And Dragon, Adored
2. Two Sides Of Monsieur Valentine
3. I Turn My Camera On
4. My Mathematical Mind
5. Delicate Place
6. Sister Jack
7. I Summon You
8. Infinite Pet
9. Was It You
10. They Never Got You
11. Merchants Of Soul