Track Listing

1. Small Stakes
2. The Way We Get By
3. Something to Look Forward To
4. Stay Don't Go
5. Jonathan Fisk
6. Paper Tiger
7. Someone Something
8. Don't Let It Get You Down
9. All The Pretty Girls Go To The City
10. You Gotta Feel It
11. Back To The Life
12. Vittorio E

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15587 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-20
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Life has gotten so much easier for these guys ever since Pavement broke up. After all, how many flannel-shirt wearing, floppy-haired, Fall sound-alikes can the average person swallow? Oh well, now that the playing field is theirs alone, Spoon do not disappoint. Kill The Moonlight is their most melodically accomplished work to date, shimmying through the primal tambourine shakes of "Small Stakes," breaking a sweat with the spiky lo-fi swagger of "Stay Don't Go," and getting all starry-eyed on the three-and-a-half minute acoustic epic "Don't Let It Get You Down." So good, you'll even forgive them for blatantly Malkmus-derived song titles like "Paper Tiger" and "Vittorio E." --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

Freakin' amazing
Man, I can't stop listening to this disc- It's so darn catchy! Do yourself a favor and get it already.

Not their best, but certainly not your worst
3 1/2


The Texas foursome's winning streak continued with this year-after follow up to the widely praised Girls Can Tell. Spoon effortlessly continues to create catchy, tense, radio-friendly rock at the drop of a hat, though the quick release may be indicative of the hurried feel of the disc. Of course their are a few amazing songs, worthy right next to the strongest elements this band's challenging synergy conveys at best. There are also a few tracks that take a more experimental turn, framing much around electronic effects. These tracks are mildly fun but often feel more half-cooked experiment then full-on incorporation. The bulk of the (typically brief) disc remains impressively standard, neither expanding upon Spoon's fun template nor regurgitating past themes; the band simply gets by with another solid, punctual, and personal release.

A Great, Diverse, Creative Recording
I've never heard anything quite like Kill the Moonlight. With the piano inclusion, particularly on Someone Something, it's reminiscent of Ben Fold. But then the piano serves a totally different, very cool purpose on the next song Don't Let It Get You Down.

This CD reminds me of Beck's Odelay from a diversity standpoint = A lot of different sounds and textures, but it works very well both single-songwise start to finish and as a whole it's even better.

This should be in any music lovers collection. A great recording.