Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

Britt Daniel is a musical McGyver smoker. Give him a greasy guitar line, a baby grand, a snare, and a snorkel, and watch the smoke soar. The titular single from Spoon's new EP is wrapped with a tension tight as Asclepius' snakes. Alfred Soto described the solo at the 1:05 minute mark, as "moving like a feather up the soles of my bare feet." The piano line about fifteen seconds later finds that same feather floating up your spine. Britt Daniel spits out that he's "got nothing to lose but darkness and shadows." His chaotic pop [...]

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