Spoon - Hot Thoughts

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Hot Thoughts is the upcoming ninth studio album by the band Spoon. It will be released on March 17, 2017, through Matador Records and is their first album to be released on the label since their 1996 debut album, Telephono.

1 Hot Thoughts
2 WhisperI’lllistentohearit
3 Do I Have to Talk You Into It
4 First Caress
5 Pink Up
6 Can I Sit Next to You
7 I Ain’t the One
8 Tear It Down
9 Shotgun
10 Us

https://youtu.be/D6KFBFg5q1Y

that is different for them, not sure what i think.

don't think i've ever failed to like a spoon album even when i thought i was going to

this track sounds great tho

i suppose he probably has but this makes me wonder if daniel had ever harmonized w/ himself on a record before, the effect is so pronounced

I like the sounds and the mood of it well enough, but there doesn't seem to be much of an actual song there. Seems like an odd opener for a Spoon record. It took me ages to warm up to They Want My Soul, though.

I like the sounds and the mood of it well enough, but there doesn't seem to be much of an actual song there.

Sounds like business as usual then.

J/k, but it doesn't sound like a great departure from the less complicated pop of their last album, which is fine with me.

Ooooh.

Wasn't sure about that new song on the first listen, three more listens and I like it a lot. Can't wait for the new album, I love this band.

I love this.

^^^^

I like it but still with the Fridmann.

I was listening to the title track when I saw this thread. I've never paid much attention to Spoon. This is okay. I could probably get to like it.

This delivers pretty much exactly what I was expecting from a Spoon song called "Hot Thoughts" and I am not complaining.

I like it but still with the Fridmann.

Indeed. Wish they'd go back to producing their records like they did with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which is one of my favourite sounding recordings of the last 20 years.

I didn't really listen to the last record as a sort of irrational personal protest, because I was tired of bands breaking up or going on hiatus for basically as long as many bands take between albums anyway. But I'm listening now, and it's pretty good, so I'm looking forward to the new one, even if I agree that (Jim)Eno/Britt/McCarthy was a great production team.

indeed. Wish they'd go back to producing their records like they did with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which is one of my favourite sounding recordings of the last 20 years.

― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:43 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

they haven't changed much at all!

i think the production on kill the moonlight is more interesting tbh

i have grown to love this song now. it threw me off guard at first but after three spins i'm into it.

I didn't really listen to the last record as a sort of irrational personal protest, because I was tired of bands breaking up or going on hiatus for basically as long as many bands take between albums anyway.

They Want My Soul is top tier Spoon, really another classic in their cannon. might be my third favorite of theirs now. realized this when i ran the Spoon poll a bit back. it sneaks up on you and hits you over the head unlike the album before did.

They Want My Soul has become an inextricable part of my life. The title track, "New York Kicks," "Knock Knock Knock" -- permanent rotation at the student radio station I advise.

i never heard anything about them splitting up or even suggesting it. last album is their best after Girls Can Tell for me.

At one point I think Britt had talked about doing a solo album, but then Divine Fits ended up happening. Also the song that's inextricably part of your life is titled "New York Kiss."

You know what's inextricably part of my life? Auto Correct on my phone.

indeed. Wish they'd go back to producing their records like they did with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which is one of my favourite sounding recordings of the last 20 years.

― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, January 18, 2017 11:43 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+1

― Wimmels, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 18:29 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

+2

this song is great

Spoon continue to rule. Fucking love the production on this.

Tour:

Date Venue Location

Mar 06 The Observatory Santa Ana, CA
Mar 14 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Mar 15 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Mar 16 The Main (SXSW Residency) Austin, TX
Jun 27 Gorilla Manchester, United Kingdom
Jun 28 The Arts School Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jun 30 O2 Forum London, United Kingdom
Jul 07 Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain
Jul 14 Forecastle Louisville, KY
Jul 15 Sloss Festival Birmingham, AL
Jul 28 Panorama Festival New York, NY

i'm going to go to the Santa Ana show and their first date, so excited! will pick up tickets on Friday when they go on sale.

this is very very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_yJYNF_Qas

it's "can i sit next to you"

The beginning sounds like "Down on the Corner."

am i insane or do both of the new songs released so far have a vague disco influence

there's one figure in there that's v. much Lament by the Cure.

in Hot Thoughts, that is.

I haven't heard note one - waiting for the album to come out so I can experience it as a whole. (Which is my M.O. for almost every record these days.)

I don't know Lament but totally re: Cure, it really sticks out

holy fuck is that good. i'm loving this direction, i really suites them.

or it...

So far their last album had more range and hooks but I'm still feeling this. Feels like it expands in a natural way from Spoon's emphasis on rigid grooves. Let's hear a whole record of "I Turn My Camera On"!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/3ajys7s9NKdoezgAIUJkvnC_4hCOAhWaJ197DPIfZszh61M7gCr3Ge_FokjSrBIVXUMqlUIQ9K_EaHErf-TbHZiMyqsaTB_eabVB5qtUP5CUccMH192PUqVwqAlU-VXLQJwqC344HahhgaU0zix64j9rMy9xTcMkIZDS5rXzW2FHHbyHttfLCYtt3aorNcPSYetiW2kB_pOOrVkWIniiU2BhM27hwB4t1Tqbx3MdXRHLcQM2q2CgHV241xaxi_m9fWyaoGNh-niFsv9vYwTSBXyhJCehjgqJBgA3-EajgO_6A5zcdOyuUzD_i-_gFqC-S9Pl2cF5HdQL-ohzXzZ3TF6-cil89FT0ibi-Tv1_5x-cSePb7MRmhv9c8zJcxmtdtdQe7pwj5okuaxiUZK3hcfFteoH1DclUZ70kf4AmSPjz80Gwa3XPpWPyWW2UpnCwTvfiINQxHTLfNK4T_GUeNp-9VJzipOM7FvkT7bqvvrOlil-8KjRtRcfOXWBRwhiE7fYQ5Nr0sAl809Bhm9OxQ1JlxzM_aTRAld9cCCZvqMkc5Py2gjo8VdNJgwfE0ZJse-jx3CZ4GpHMFKpQEQYJ2V5wHd3L7-USb71IFZEkZU_XVyriKequ=w535-h950-no

let's try this again:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kg0afHzhdgMj2sxxN4F2SnbEVVJd91MEx31KFGKiTAAMKc4bTVue6eVMkWDkDwn4kTbA9ofQFB855VhBwBJBpqYDEwBWGMJAtzDJT53ny9VsLLzJsrdL8IzbIlbCOizBOBNZudjBfwkh1xET2xg2O9-dqm0nveTKMMaWBwjRqpXGKhypQp2MBMzYZc6_esttbnZvehhWOGnvIFWCy-1Neusr68vzci9saOpWMLE47XLn_nBcccDEDBqCS0TrsuC6sAzr66htTvqUTLdyDMcC9l8lfCW2tvkRR8hLsmJd2WtdlDOVkf9URgU8gFOgx1rlmzxV22bwNlV4TLxSblaX0izbwZar-51WvkkqAoOofCRPPBw5GQdKWnWU_k4aoeplCjsgvwKoznuvm9tJf9o-lmvHQJmcIux5AuJZP_2yLOXQHVIT53ZUZHQkpf7IvDGrEyM5HXfzkMuNGGGqwjUMEjEopPVTh5Uql01Eqi14prnGOM17dEEFb8LQys_-iMzwlQcA2Pe8RYtekMjEuDawwSUi5u0x9k9YWrG8cQdaE1klgQ5UFBDsZTmHsWzlX2SpNTgE3TDqNiYGEAlOmUzvNV8nAN74IDdSUEpVcQNSNF65SOtKhihawaFig23J4SrtZ-WwkfmAXv6jjmFofneIwpdCi5OVEoy-uFZuLq8pYA=w535-h950-no

on my way, so excited!

"can i sit next to you" is fuckin great. they're still so great at deploying sound

1. Do I Have to Talk You Into It
2. Hot Thoughts
3. Inside Out
4. I Turn My Camera On
5. The Beast and Dragon, Adored
6. I Saw the Light
7. Don't You Evah
8. The Underdog
9. Black Like Me
10. Small Stakes
11. My Mathematical Mind
12. Can I Sit Next To You?
13. Do You
14. Got Nuffin
15. Rent I Pay

Encore:

16. I Ain't the One
17. Rainy Taxi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MSdqpZxqM

nice setlist!

Daniel has become expert at that kind of ugly strummed noise

the concert was unbelievable fun. my friend and i kept saying just when you think this can't get any better then they play a song that was even more epic then the one before. all the new songs are 10/10, well maybe not the new encore song as it was a bit mellow. the first song of the night was brand new to everyone there and it didn't disappoint. in fact i figured it would be the last song on the new album, turns out it will be the third song. "Rainy Taxi" was such a great way to end the night, so euphoric.

go if they come to town, a band at the top of their game.

I often make the mistake of thinking of Spoon as a meat'n'potatoes indie rock band whose songwriting manages to elevate them above roteness. But I put this on and started doing some work, and there are textures and sounds in here that made me think 'Oh what is this I'm listening to? Is it house music?' or whatever...

Their production, especially since Kill The Moonlight, is fabulous. Even just their meat'n'potatoes stuff. The textures they get out of drums and guitars shame most other indie bands.

"I Ain't The One" is "Editions Of You" re-imagined by Coldplay

here are textures and sounds in here that made me think 'Oh what is this I'm listening to? Is it house music?' or whatever...

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, March 27, 2017 10:16 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this exactly. Also why I really, really love "Pink Up."

debut at number 17.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga debuted at number 10. Get to work folks! Even thought it's far from my favorite Spoon album there's not 17 better new albums than this one.

that's a fall off from previous peaks. Check out the last two.

first Spoon album released since billboard started counting streaming right?

Damn the last two were both top four! Is Matador dropping the ball? This album got great reviews!

This album is great.

Not surprised by the lower entry - this album is more groove, less pop. The last album had "Do You" which is pretty much the most catchy pop thing they've ever done. In another era that would have been a top ten single to rival the best of them.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5nhjeBTn-whwI_YmOMqPeOqfbxDwRRAFl4zhkLPUNbK_0L07ucMDH3UrxVw3mr9gKzwukMJLdjzBAiXpnJ2sKHMIUggpY0Tt191oU39WCtJoWTv0P4qT-9-4jCtGmN5FdpWPT03qFZ-OBiCCsMbs_iTs-mcpKtDTwMgxq9L9h7DBA_UqG9fPPf3KYGPzetJJH03mkExMdZUP9VdIKU6b7rFhXmlZoYBpcdIZK1b-cuFCsINTVn-oMjc9XKYwm5dPlrLMfceiaBDttXI-vHwvpH5gxKSmutvreRUn0CiiM_b2-O8ZfqoDwc936sedNw53A80MdQUZc-_-g_nz0yD7b0aXVSZpw4KoiPRgTYDNlIW2ZRvzoU-KRo85EsAk4agm4rHZ6wv1qA0lM5HFhcEJ6VCx4lrO3lZRvPv6b8atwIVix4pIOaBn-lyD1vC3qIWa87pPv4NS2uhWL6Ae0lcEpkEuDAzh7BLb4CmxyKMmKeEjLAXVaVUmE0-3WPHSKUxa8DaDbsxUkIEsskelBbwBWafdQeK34V_rt7smAVK-fuEA-eZRViRadDm6Km6hxZKD_GEKcoiB1HUnMVraDql20q4B2TW-1ppQ5mH4RwhTvtUPVSuoqDwAnkY6d_Lig_1HV2srn0ox-Jw3kYtp0anCvMydMP1DpZaSb9s=w1689-h950-no

excited, thou it's about 100 miles away and need to work the next morning.

so i might actually only see Spoon.

I'll never complain about having to go 30 miles to Bristol to see a band ever again

Pre-kids an 180-mile round trip to Bristol for gigs was common for us. Next week and the week after we're doing two over-nighters (London and Manchester) to see The National and Grizzly Bear.

Yeah same, trips to London and back the same night weren't uncommon pre-kids. Come to think of it I think the last time we went to London to see a band was Spoon in Camden.

2010? Or was it v early 2011? We were there!

I know you were, it was mentioned on another Spoon thread. It was 2010, our son was very young and we left him at the in-laws while we went to the gig.

Feels like another life.

I've played this Spoon album more than any since GF.

Yeah? I liked it quicker than any of the last few but don't feel like it's had the growing power that Transference or even They Want My Soul had. I probably need to revisit it though; I feel like I 'get' each Spoon album a lot more when the next one comes out, if that makes sense? ie. I liked Transference quite a bit from the off, but when TWMS came out I went back to it and was like 'oh wow this is amazing'.

i think i'm with Monthy with this one. They Want My Soul has turned into one of Spoon's classic albums. their run from Girl Can Tell to TWMS is probably unmatched in rock today. i do really like this one but doesn't have the same impact those albums do, it feels more like a singles album for them. don't get me wrong, it's still really good just not up to Spoon standards.

Transference is the vaporous one to my ears. I love TWMS.

Wasn't crazy about Transference at first but it grew on me. I've never felt drawn back to TWMS and the new one has not stuck. I like all Spoon albums but I'm sad to say they feel somewhat less essential lately.

Transference I liked a great deal but I overplayed it, burned myself out on it.

TWMS always seemed...incomplete to me, like it was missing a chromosome; abrupt, as though there was a more fulsome version of the LP 10 minutes longer that was sanded down past the quick.

Hot Thoughts I'm really loving, even as it's a mystery I'm still solving.

(I still need to really explore/absorb their earliest records.)

Transference was a disappointment to me following Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, and still is really. Probably my least favourite Spoon.

TWMS seemed pretty throwaway on first listen and I didn't give it a fair shot; I've since gone back to it and love it now.

Hot Thoughts feels like a classic already.

I love Transference, I'd probably put it in my top 3 Spoon albums. I love Hot Thoughts a lot when I'm playing it but I struggle to remember how most of the songs go when I'm not. Like I can look at the tracklisting for any other album and know the songs straight away but not with HT.

Ha. That's me and Transference.

^^^ Yep, me too.

Listening to Transference now, and I'll admit there's more good stuff on here than I give it credit for. I think some of the production quirks just annoy me a bit. Last track's a belter though ...

There’s at least 5 songs on Transference that I’d count amongst their best.

yup

(these five:

I Saw the Light
Is Love Forever?
Who Makes Your Money
Trouble Comes Running
Got Nuffin)

Written In Reverse
Out Go The Lights
Goodnight Laura

All also great.

Transference is like a hangover after Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, like clearing up the party and feeling that pang of hollow loneliness. But it's great.

I'm a big Transference fan. Even a lesser track like 'Who Makes Your Money' explores space in a way that I think they deployed more successfully on TWMS.

The self-production is more interesting than about half the songs. There is no wrong answer with this remarkably consistent band.

At a I heart radio thing. Spoon,national and beck

Live on YouTube

i went to this i Heart Radio event last night. it was prepackaged indie rock for the kids. not sure how to pull of eight bands in one night with very limited time. the had a rotating stage and very little set up time. but it just felt so generic and disgustingly commercial. not why i'm into music for.

anyways, Munford and Sons were pretty great and opened the show. i don't like them at all but they knew how to get the audience to eat out their hands. still don't think i'm going to go seek out their music but a good show. Spoon were next and are Spoon. the did stick out because they were probably the least known band of the night. they mainly stick with the new album which was perfect for this type of show. i'm sure part of the audience enjoyed it, i loved it and the band is still on a role, they are not just going through the motions. a band that is still at the top of their game. left to get some beers and stuff for Walk the Moon. Dashboard Confessional is a funny band. the last song was just him with an acrostic guitar and the audience helping him sing. The National were next and i felt like i was watching a Gothic band. they brought it down a few levels and played an impressive set. Beck was next and i was really looking forward to the show as he was great the only other time i saw him back in around the year 2000. he opened with "Loser," and was playing to this type of audience. then it got really sort of boring for a few song. he did play "Devils Haircut" but unfortunately it sounded dated. the songs on the new album are energetic and fun but not really memorable. ended with "Where's It At" but i was let down. really looking forward to seeing him but it lacked spark or something. we left during Cage the Elephant, mainly to beat LA traffic. prepackaged indie rock but happy to see Spoon and the National so it turned out to be a fun night. just sort of depressing to see music presented like that. the last time i was at the Forum i say Nirvana and this was the third to last show they ever played. very different experiences.

I Heart Radio event at the Forum in Los Angeles. January 19, 2018

Spoon:

Do I Have to Talk You Into It
Inside Out
Hot Thoughts
Can I Sit Next To You
Do You
The Underdog
Rent I Pay

The National:

The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness
Bloodbuzz Ohio
I Need My Girl
Guilty Party
Day I Die

Beck:

Loser
Up All Night
Devils Haircut
Colors
Dreams
Wow
E-Pro
Where It's At
(with One Foot in the Grave)

*sorry about my grammar upthead. i was just writing and didn't check my work.

Good to see you back Bee OK!

Really wish there was a 12-Inch Club Mix of "First Caress".

i really do love this album and "First Caress" would make for a great club mix.

this might be this best thing on this album, it's magical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWSSCdLW74

There were a couple of interviews published recently, I'd hoped there might be a new album coming but they just seem to be in support of a batch of reissues:

https://americansongwriter.com/britt-daniel-looks-back-at-two-decades-of-spoon/

https://reverb.com/news/interview-spoons-jim-eno-on-the-bands-recording-techniques

Fairly interesting interviews anyway, especially the Jim Eno one

I fucking love this album.

"WhisperI'lllistentohearit" is Daniel's sexiest moment on record. And the tempo change!

It's become my favorite Spoon album!

Alfred and willem OTM

This is the record where I feel I can really finally commit to them as a fan, if that makes any sense, though the 2001-2014 era certainly has songs and even albums I liked.