{"id":449,"date":"2010-08-10T12:34:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T19:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=449"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:43:27","slug":"spoon-transference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/spoon-transference\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOON + Transference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_450\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 410px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SPOON-Transference-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450\" title=\"SPOON-Transference-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SPOON-Transference-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"SPOON Transference\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SPOON-Transference-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/SPOON-Transference-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>SPOON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Transference<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Merge Records]<\/p>\n<p>Long known as a bastion of alternative country, Austin has also spawned some of America\u2019s most adventurous pop bands. At the top of the heap stands Spoon, a quartet that strives to balance experimental art rock with jagged guitar pop in a way that\u2019s palatable to mainstream listeners. <em>Transference<\/em> achieves that goal better than anything the group has released thus far. Packed with angular guitars, staccato rhythms and progressive funk grooves, the set often sounds like an imaginative hybrid of vintage Kinks and mid-period Sonic Youth. Notable moments include \u201cWritten in Reverse,\u201d a bouncy, groove-oriented track fitted with barrelhouse piano; \u201cGoodnight Laura,\u201d a haunting piano ballad that brings to mind the solo work of John Cale; and the riff-driven \u201cIs Love Forever?\u201d Throughout, singer-guitarist Britt Daniel\u2019s sandpapery rasp\u2014think Ray Davies mixed with Box Tops-era Alex Chilton\u2014tethers Spoon\u2019s flighty excursions to something akin to Memphis soul. \u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOON Transference [Merge Records] Long known as a bastion of alternative country, Austin has also spawned some of America\u2019s most adventurous pop bands. At the top of the heap stands Spoon, a quartet that strives to balance experimental art rock with jagged guitar pop in a way that\u2019s palatable to mainstream listeners. Transference achieves that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,32,175,173,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}