Album Review: Spoon’s Hot Thoughts Will Circle Through Your Brain
The irony of Spoon’s Hot Thoughts is that it feels like a batch of hot thoughts or rather hot songs are circulating your brain. If you see the album cover, it is a skull with infrared colors that splash around it: giving a look of chaos and wonder Moreover, it gives a symbolic look to a sonic representation: when you hear Hot Thoughts, you are going to have a meta-moment where you observe what you feel and see when your thoughts become too much.
Hot Thoughts
We all over-think. Ironically, the brain can be wired to over-think, while the spirit is created to be simple. Hence, the clash between our emotional desires to have clarity and our mind’s frame of over-thoughts is a natural spiritual challenge between material/ mental excess and our soul’s simplicity. Interesting, right? Alright class is over, but I mention this because Spoon’s Hot Thoughts is 10 tracks that take you inside the mind/being of a person worked by their sporadic visions and torn will to quell them. The sentiment has relevance in humanity, especially in these times of mutual apathy and angst. How do we fight the world or our loved ones’ madness when inside we feel like we are going mad ourselves? Thus, Hot Thoughts is like a bridge between how a bunch of individual spirits going through the same, inner mental anguish can build/ interact with an anguished society. Yet, you do not receive this perception until you go through the album, which sonically sounds like a warp across the universe with Doctor Strange.
The album begins with “Hot Thoughts”, which sounds like a nightmare is creeping in your brain in the same way an injection slowly pulses through your skin. There is a sense of urgency and curiosity that enraptures you as the unknown usually does. Spoon brilliantly makes you feel from the first song to its last ,“US”, that you are walking into both a different sound and world through their record. “Pink Up” feels like a twinkled jungle of pink trees, stars, and even creatures. The beats bounce and spread in away that makes you feel like you can catch them if you just dream enough. The same goes for “Do I Have To Talk You Into It” which comes of like a Led Zeppelin inspired track. It feels “big” and boisterous in its kick-drum, but keeps a grounded tone in its light, spontaneous guitar arrangement, which can go from riffing to writhing. Yet, “First Caress” and “Shotgun” do not stay far behind in sonic charm, but feel are more elaborative of Britt Daniel’s “too cool for school” vocals. Daniel has a voice that swoons with its capacity to sound both effortless and in turmoil. In both these songs, he is singing about his care and un-care for a lover, which again shows Spoon’s lyrical might in revealing humanity’s casual hypocrisy. We can be so in love with our relationships to the point that we numb ourselves to not feel them so much.
Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
Can I Sit Next To You
Spoon are known experimental rockers, and now in their ninth outing, Hot Thoughts, they show why experimentation always keeps you fresh. When you push creative boundaries, you find new creative talents. From disco splashes to funk fusion or pop influences to classic rock riffs, this album gives you everything you need when thinking on how your mind and its perception of the world/ relationships work. For More Information On Spoon and to buy Hot Thoughts On March 17 Click Here.
