Austin, Texas superstars Spoon recently emerged from their studio with a new high in their already brilliant career. Their sixth album, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” managed to be everything people weren’t expecting: it wasn’t a bunch of radio-friendly singles, and it wasn’t a return to the stripped-down rock of their breakthrough, “Kill the Moonlight”.
Opening with the swaggering piano rock of “Don’t make me a target”, we get an immediate feel that things are a bit rougher...
In an era where you can download whatever you want and music isn’t something you sit outside the record store and wait for anymore, it takes a lot for a band to create a tour de force that gets people out of their musical complacency and truly rock out. Well, like all acquired tastes — Thrice — might not do that for many people. But whatever you felt about them before the release of two double CDs over a six month span, you have to respect what they’ve created...
We've all heard the famous whistling tune that echoes throughout Young Folks. This track, amongst others from Peter Bjorn and John's third album Writers Block, has been played pretty much everywhere, not only across radio channels and commercials, but has also been featured on TV shows the likes of Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck and Gossip Girl to name a few. So what's all the hype about anyway? Let's dive into the world of Peter, Bjorn and John to figure out.
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