If you haven’t seen the Stereogum video yet of Spoon performing one of their new tracks, “Don’t You Evah”, then you must watch below.
This song, even with the faded sound through the video mic, sounds amazing. For me, the best written pop song is always one that has less rather than more in it’s textures. When you get in to writing avant garde music, the more the merrier. But when you’re aiming for a larger audience, you have to structure the beat, melody and harmonies in a way that is easy to embrace. It’s a theory widly practiced not just with pop music but in Jazz as well.
While this theory expresses simplicity, it’s not necessarily simple in technical terms. The music they are playing together is difficult to perfect. You can’t just take four random musicians off the street and tell them to sit down and do what Spoon is doing in this video. Charlie Mingus once said, “Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”. It’s this idea that makes Spoon such a great band and I can’t wait for this album.
Album Track Listing:
1. Don’t Make Me a Target
2. The Ghost of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
4. Don’t You Evah
5. Rhthm and Soul
6. Eddie’s Ragga
7. The Underdog
8. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
9. Finer Feelings
10. Black Like Me
Links of Interest
Andrew Bird released track, “Self-Torture” – (Not found on Armchare Apocrypha )