Spoon - Girls Can Tell (Black Vinyl)

Spoon - Girls Can Tell (Black Vinyl)This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny placethe songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the

the band's unforgettable debut record

through the world-weary vantage point of a group of friends that can’t stop coming back to each other

driving though the front of our house once again in his 90s vintage vehicle—the Smog-mobile

and a portal into their unique vantage point without limitation

it’s Bill Callahan

XL Recordings 2LP edition of Radiohead's 1997 modern classic

The Brian Jonestown Massacre parallels the prolific and effortless brilliance of The Rolling Stones at their fevered late-1960s peak

where the industrial punch of “In Hell” sits alongside the chopped up vocals and melodic keys of “Get Right Up to the Mic

a myriad of musical collaborators were enlisted uniting a finely-tuned sense of adventurousness that roves between the personal and political to frame an acute portrait of modern day societal revelation

Lib's inventive production leans towards the jazzy side of his repertoire

which firmly established them as one of today’s most exciting rock bands

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