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Everything Hits at Once
(Matador)
SO YOU thought rock music was dead?
Having formed in 1993 in Austin, Texas Spoon have released nine studio albums of post-punkish indie guitar music.
This, their first greatest-hits compilation, highlights why the critics love them so much, with most of the songs coming from their career-high three album run of their breakthrough Kill the Moonlight (2002), muscular Gimme Fiction (2005) and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007).
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