Girls Can Tell, Spoon, 2001, :36
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
I come to this album from having heard only the later Spoon albums. This, their second, is apparently the album that critics agree was the first to have that "Spoon" sound. From constantly being compared to the Pixies and Wire, they came into their own. They really don't sound like anyone else, it's true. (Well, "Me and the Bean" sounds like Nirvana.) There's a crisp, spare, yet shambling sound, and Britt Daniels' ragged voice is very singular. One of the great modern rock bands. Favorite tracks: "Anything You Want," "Everything Hits At Once," "Talk a Walk."
