Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Spoon have shared ‘My Babe,’ the third and final advance
listen of their forthcoming album Lucifer on the Sofa via (Matador Records). ‘My Babe’ is a song in two parts, with the beginning a sentimental piano that eventually builds to an exuberant, more confident and heavier song. The lyrics begin with looking at a relationship in one way, a suffocating and endless four walls, but by the crescendo it’s about asking yourself what would you do for that genuine love.
Spoon previously shared the visceral and vivid track “Wild” a song Stereogum says “demands to be played from rooftops” It follows “The Hardest Cut,” which Rolling Stone called “a straight up epic rock song.” The single is currently #1 at AAA radio and you can watch the band play the arena-rock ready song on the March 15th episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Tune into the show’s YouTube page after the on-air performance to see the band play even more from their new album.
An indie-exclusive color variant of the Lucifer On the Sofa vinyl will be available and fans can find where to preorder that version HERE. Find other pre-order options for Lucifer On the Sofa HERE.
Lucifer On the Sofa was co-produced by Spoon and Mark Rankin (Adele, Queens of the Stone Age) and features contributions from Dave Fridmann and Justin Raisen. It’s the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade and bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up a packed room. It’s an album of intensity and intimacy, where the music’s harshest edges feel as vivid as the directions quietly murmured into the mic on the first take. According to frontman Britt Daniel, “It’s the sound of classic rock as written by a guy who never did get Eric Clapton.”
“It is the sound of a band in action, collaborating in real-time—making music that feels less lonely.”
Pitchfork
“One of the most consistently excellent bands”
Stereogum
“Spoon has the very magical capability of remaining true to their core sound while somehow constantly elevating their songcraft and exploring new areas of rock”
AV Club
“a collection of songs alternately scorching in their intensity and striking in their intimacy”
FLOOD Magazine
“extremely consistent”
Uproxx
“Spoon have never made a bad album”
Paste
“Lucifer on the Sofa’s ten songs crackle with energy, earworms, and seemingly limitless guitar and keyboard textures, while still sounding, as always, unmistakably like Spoon”
Texas Monthly
“Lucifer on the Sofa finds Spoon joining the double-digit club (waddup Sonic Youth, Sleater-Kinney, Guided by Voices, Flaming Lips) in full control of the distinct talents and trademarks that have become familiar on the nine previous LPs – this one distinctly more driving and aggressive than predecessor Hot Thoughts, where synths and atmosphere were the ruling order.”
Austin Chronicle
“a straight up epic rock song”
Rolling Stone (on “The Hardest Cut”)
“With a steady, spur-banging beat, Spoon revel in Link Wray strokes and swing new riffs throughout the track”
Spin (on “The Hardest Cut”)
“The toe-tapping verses almost have a rockabilly chug to them, yet Spoon break that familiar pattern with unexpected guitar stabs, creating a nervous tension that Daniel stokes”
Paste (on “The Hardest Cut”)
“a little bluesy strut to it that owes more than a little to Spoon’s Texas boogie rock forefathers”
Brooklyn Vegan (on “The Hardest Cut”)
“Powered by the sharp, brawny rhythm guitar work Daniel’s known and loved for – played, of course, on his signature Telecaster Thinline – the song has an irresistible street-savvy swagger that’s punctuated by an electrifying, rockabilly-from-the-gutters solo from Gerardo Larios”
Guitar World (on “The Hardest Cut”)
“one of Spoon’s hardest-rocking songs ever”
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