9. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga GaThough I haughtily dismissed this album after a careless first listen, I was scared into giving this record another chance after last year’s Grizzly debacle (see #7 above). Listening to somehow bare songs like “Black Like Me” or “The Ghost of You Lingers”, I found Spoon’s strutty rocksongs to have choruses after all, and not just that, but their addictive tracks possess musical structures that are all the more rewarding for leaving little gaps of silence, of aural space. This might make it seem as if Ga x 5 is a difficult album, but mariachi-fun tracks like “The Underdog” (the cute one-take video is here) or “You Got Yr Cherry Bomb” should easily blow this notion away with their mighty, funky horn sections.
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