Spoon New Album Talk
Spoon are in the homestretch of finishing up their newest LP. The follow-up to Gimme Fiction should be ready for an April or May release from Merge records. According to Britt Daniels, things are really starting to gel in the studio.
"We've been recording off and on for the past year, but in the past six weeks we've been recording every day," frontman Britt Daniel tells Billboard.com. "This is the serious recording stretch where we'll get most of it done. We've got six songs started, but we work slow."
Daniel says the musical direction isn't clear to him yet, but the producer considers it a new direction for the band.
"I feel like we just have a bunch of songs, but our producer, who is usually pretty hard on us, says it's quite different from stuff we've done before. I can't see it at this point," he adds with a laugh.
The band are hopeful for a November deadline, and will focus all their efforts on studio work until the LP is completed. There is a show in Austin for December 1st, at a small festival with Peaches, Dead Meadow and Octopus Project, but no further scheduling will be made until the band have wrapped up the album.
"We've pretty much decided to lay low until we get this thing done, because shows usually set us back," he admits. The new album is the follow-up to last year's "Gimme Fiction," which has sold 146,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Of the new album, Daniel suggests fans will likely be familiar with songs "Don't Make Me a Target" and "Rhythm and Soul," which have become live staples during Spoon's live dates over the past year.
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