Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge, 2007)

The word 'cool' is bandied around far too liberally in this day and age. A crime of which, on occasion, this very writer has been guilty. What does cool even mean, anymore? I guess everyone has their own definition of cool, however, if your definition of cool is not wide enough to encompass the latest Spoon album, then I can only deduce that your definition of cool is rather uncool.
Indie kids have been going ga-ga for Spoon en masse since the release of their 2002 album, Kill The Moonlight, though the band have been together since 1994. For reasons unbeknownst to myself this is the first Spoon album that I have listened to at length.
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga opens with the assured swagger of Don't Make Me A Target, and follows with the ethereal, piano driven The Ghost Of You Lingers. The poptasticness of You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - complete with horn accompaniement - leads into the bass-driven, hand-clap and click strewn gem that is Don't You Evah, at which point you begin to think that there isn't a bad song on this album. Well, you're right, there isn't a bad song on this album. In fact, they are all - to quote from another cool source - money!
If you are looking to boost your cool quotient or are simply looking for some damn fine music, don't make the same mistake that I did in delaying the inevitable, head out to your local music retailer and buy Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga right now. Music this good will be heard.

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