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SpoonGimme Fiction Matador/Remote Contol/Inertia When Remote Control Records declared that 'Gimme Fiction' is "the wildest Spoon album to date", they were lying. In fact, would have to say that this record is one of the most serenely domesticated indie records I've ever heard. Their previous effort, 'Kill The Moonlight', is buckets of fun - from the opening piano strains of The Way We Get By ("We get high in back seats of cars / We break into mobile homes...") a rush of blood seeps through all the veins in my body. In contrast, the opening guitar riff to The Beast And Dragon, Adored just heralds a warning of the tragic calm to come. Sure, this record's not bad, but it just doesn't have anything interesting to say. Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine sounds like some kind of bizarre alt/country single, and then I Turn My Camera On would not have been out of place on one of those new-fangled post-nu-wave-core records like The Killers' 'Hot Fuss'. Sister Jack could be a Sleepy Jackson single, except without any of their Beach Boys-style freakiness, and I Summon You is a goddamn campfire singalong. I guess this album is eclectic enough to be wild, and if Britt Daniel had taken any of these ideas and really run with them, it might even be good. But it's just so deviously uninteresting; and I don't really expect it to be a grower. Give me previous single Jonathan Fisk any day - now there's some cute indie goodness for you.  |
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