Kill The Moonlight

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Everything changed for Spoon after <i>Kill the Moonlight</i>. The Austin, Texas indie-rock legends’ fourth studio album marked a decisive turning point following the major-label fallout that ensnared the release of its predecessor, 2001’s <i>Girls Can Tell</i>. If that record solidified Spoon’s increasingly dependable reputation, then <i>Kill the Moonlight</i> confirmed the group’s status as an undeniably Great Band amidst the already-plentiful early-2000s rock landscape. Spoon’s profile practically rose overnight after <i>Kill the Moonlight</i>’s release in 2002; if you were of a certain age back then, the barroom piano chords that open “The Way We Get By” were practically inescapable on TV shows and in movies (not to mention in actual barrooms). In the years since, the members of Spoon have ascended to indie-rock elder statesmen, as Britt Daniel’s singular vocals and the band’s taut, impossibly precise explosions-as-rock-music have become one of the genre’s most distinctive sonic approaches in this century. And it all began with <i>Kill the Moonlight</i>. .

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