You’ve heard instant classic, ‘No Bullets Spent‘, now Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors, Spoon, follow up with Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon compilation. It’s out now on Matador Records and you can get it right here.
How many rock bands from the past 25 years could get away with a greatest-hits album? Spoon stand alone, with a career-spanning retrospective culled from all over their unique songbook. It’s a flawless compilation of their best-known, best-loved tunes, yet it’s still full of surprises—the only thing you could expect from a band that’s spent their whole career taking people by surprise.
“The idea of doing a best-of came to us a couple times,” Britt Daniel says. “First I wasn’t sure how I felt about it but at some point I remembered that when I got my first Cure record it was Standing on a Beach. When I got my first New Order record, it was Substance. That was how I met those bands, and I moved backwards from there but I still listen to those comps. I love a greatest hits LP when it’s done well. It can be a thing unto itself.”
The band advise that any grievances with omissions on the track list can be directed to the twittersphere.
