{"id":7775,"date":"2022-02-15T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2022-04-25T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T13:07:57","slug":"spoon-lucifer-on-the-sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/spoon-lucifer-on-the-sofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoon <br>Lucifer on the Sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spoon-lucifer_on_the_sofa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7776\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spoon-lucifer_on_the_sofa.jpg\" alt=\"Spoon, Lucifer on the Sofa album review\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spoon-lucifer_on_the_sofa.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/spoon-lucifer_on_the_sofa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s tempting to call Spoon\u2019s latest, <i>Lucifer on the Sofa<\/i> (Matador Records), a return to form, but aside from a couple of mediocre albums midway through their career (namely 2007\u2019s <i>Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga<\/i> and 2010\u2019s <i>Transference<\/i>), the band has been consistently releasing solid records for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <i>Lucifer<\/i> does feel like a return to the lean sound of breakout albums like <i>Girls Can Tell<\/i> and <i>Kill the Moonlight<\/i>. This may be largely due to the production work of Mark Rankin. He\u2019s rendered Britt Daniel\u2019s voice bone dry and placed it upfront with his Telecaster, so even though the record has plenty of other sounds in the mix, it doesn\u2019t feel particularly ornate. Indeed, on \u201cThe Devil &amp; Mister Jones,\u201d a highlight, Daniel is flanked by horns, but the song still comes off lean and mean. The same sort of sleight of hand is used on the subsequent, \u201cWild,\u201d where the bevy of synths doesn\u2019t wet the cut\u2019s dry cadence.<\/p>\n<p>This Albini-esque aesthetic is upheld throughout the album, giving it a briny punch that\u2019s only offset by the sweetness of softer moments like \u201cMy Babe\u201d and \u201cAstral Jacket.\u201d As such, every utterance on <i>Lucifer<\/i> seems purposeful, and with the album clocking in at just 10 tracks and 39 minutes despite the band spending several years making it and many more songs reportedly written, it\u2019s obvious this record was edited to its essentials. The end result is exactly that: an album that is essentially Spoon and just outright indispensable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tempting to call Spoon\u2019s latest, <i>Lucifer on the Sofa<\/i> (Matador Records), a return to form, but aside from a couple of mediocre albums midway through their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,50,747],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-matador-records","tag-spoon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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