Kill The Moonlight
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100
Could be the Strokes in 10 years–if they work hard.
10y
89
This record is an adventure in starkness, beyond Girls Can Tell even while evoking some of that album's finest moments.
15y
80
Though the album's brittle immediacy is far from a disappointment, and the quick turnaround between Kill the Moonlight and their previous one is a treat for Spoon fans, one can't help but notice that this album just isn't as revelatory as Girls Can Tell.
15y
80
They make you happy, and remind you why you're sad: the perfect high.
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5y
70
The elements used are essential to the entire makeup of the song, whereas the rest of the songs try to flourish themselves with asinine bells & whistles, waddling back and forth between intricacy and simplicity, but ultimately come off sub par at best.
14y
70
The result is indie-rock as passive-aggressive blues implosion.
11y
60
With Kill the moonlight, Spoon complete their transformation from ragtag rockers into beat-driven post-punks.
11y
Okay, fine. You could say I've been obsessed with Spoon recently, but it is for good reason. Okay!!!!????
I promise this band isn't consuming me whole, they're just.... so.... consistently.... good
One of Spoon's signature attributes is their studio trickery, and no other album of theirs demonstrates this more than Kill The Moonlight
This album came out in 2002, and the use of space and binaural audio (when you hear different instruments playing in each earpiece) still ... read more
Spoon is one of those band's I will keep saying "Oh I'll get to them later" over and over again but still have no plan of when I actually will get to them. With that being said Kill The Moonlight has been an album that has been recommended to me for some time and since I don't want to fully commit to listening to their discography just yet, I am deciding to just skip some of their work so I can knock this thing out for now. I wasn't expecting to see such clear 60s and 70s rock ... read more
Fourth album 'Kill the Moonlight' picks up where its predecessor left off but starts going for an even more deconstructed sound with the band embracing the joys of economy in their arrangements. You get the feeling that, for the next few albums at least, Spoon were really trying to strip their music down to the essence, making sure not to overstuff their songs with anything superfluous.
It's an approach that works and makes the band feel a little more unique than before, their songs are ... read more
Step down from Girls Can Tell, but still pretty good.
Playlist-Worthy Tracks: The Way We Get Back, Jonathan Fisk, Paper Tiger, Don't Let It Get You Down,
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Track List
| 1 | Small Stakes 3:00 | 80 |
| 2 | The Way We Get By 2:39 | 91 |
| 3 | Something To Look Forward To 2:16 | 81 |
| 4 | Stay Don't Go 3:35 | 76 |
| 5 | Jonathan Fisk 3:15 | 82 |
| 6 | Paper Tiger 3:07 | 75 |
| 7 | Someone Something 2:48 | 75 |
| 8 | Don't Let It Get You Down 3:29 | 73 |
| 9 | All the Pretty Girls Go To the City 3:12 | 79 |
| 10 | You Gotta Feel It 1:29 | 73 |
| 11 | Back To the Life 2:21 | 84 |
| 12 | Vittorio E. 3:39 | 81 |
Total Length: 34 minutes
