IN STOCK: SPOON - THEY WANT MY SOUL (WHITE 180 GRAM VINYL) Brand new album from the band! Best new music on P4K! All these soulsuckers, theyre among us. Theyre stealing our privacy, our convictions, the very essence of our being, and leaving behind little more than a for sale sign and some vague, constant hollowness. In music, a dwindling whirlpool of funds only spurs on these parasites as they scavenge for scraps of humanity wherever ears can hear. Their thirst is real. And artists—those blasphemous and holy conduits for truth, liberty, and whatever else is missing from our lives—cant help but succumb. To last more than 20 years in rocknroll without sacrificing a lethal amount of ones soul requires a certain vigilance; to navigate around the pitfalls of both punk and ambition without tripping-up on either can seem just as hard as making a great album. But Spoon, one of the most stand-up bands of their generation, have figured all of this out. On their eighth album, they laugh in the face of leeches, defy gravity, suspend time. All they wants my soul, yes, yes, I know! hollers Britt Daniel, stretching every crevice of his 43-year-old throat. His message is clear: They cant have it. Spoons soul is theirs alone. Its not James Browns soul, and though Daniel was raised Christian in conservative small-town Texas, its not Gods soul, either. Its not exactly classic rock, not quite post-punk. Its not the soul of indie idealists blindly conflating modesty and virtue. Instead, this band is about capturing the unknown—those finer feelings, as Daniel once put it—and simply letting it float. Many of their songs are meticulously crafted, but they also breathe and break with crackling spontaneity. Theirs is an in-between soul happily seeking limbo as its own destination. Its manly in an old-fashioned way, but still scuffed-up and vulnerable. Its allergic to empty sentiment. Its smart but not eggheaded, tough but not dumb. Its Costello, Lennon, Can, and the Cure. Its all-knowing and hopelessly fallible, mysterious with a purpose. Its going to be crushed by life and love, and its going to endure.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:48:04 +0000
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