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Gimme Fiction
by Spoon
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Overall Rating:
3.4133
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3320
Gimme Fiction Rank 4 Reviews
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Stylus MagazineCreative evolutionâs a boon and a bane. In many ways, Spoonâs idiosyncratic progressions forced them to forge a new fan-base with every record. Each album alienated many of the followers gained from the previous recording, typically with ...more
Tiny Mix Tapes.comSo Spoon has done it again, and perhaps better than they’d ever done it before. Gimme Fiction is the band’s fifth full-length since their 1996 Matador debut Telephono, and it is phenomenal. Frontman Britt Daniel has always had an ear ...more
Tiny Mix TapesIt is phenomenal. ...more
JunkmediaAll eleven songs on Gimme Fiction are immaculately crafted, concise pop gems. ...more
The Austin ChronicleLike no less than Wilco, Spoon has yet to release a mediocre album. On the contrary, with every new series of sneaks, the beloved Austin indie institution overlays yet another evolutionary transparency onto its endlessly compelling musical matrix. ...more
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PopMattersAs a destined classic, Gimme Fiction doesn't announce itself like we expect "classics" to, beating its chest and assuming its superiority; instead, it transmits its ideas in clandestine asides, on scraps of graph paper passed around the ...more
Stylus MagazineEach song glows with infinitesimal joys, tiny pointillist production flourishes noticeable only under close scrutiny. But in rounding out their sound, they brought the viewer close enough to see the brushstrokes and the smudges. ...more
cokemachineglowWhat sticks out most about Spoon, five albums in, is how singular they sound, like a jut of brilliant rock standing unfazed by crashing tides of trends and hopeful hype. ...more
StylusMagazineThe result is most likely their most enduring work yet. ...more
SplendidAgain raises the standard for thoughtful, well-crafted pop. ...more
PopMatters ShakingThrough.netFiction finds Daniel and Eno exploring the tension between a tight rhythm section and chaotic production techniques (from messy guitar parts to bizarre samples). And that provides an edge to the music that not only makes for an attention-grabbing ...more
Dot MusicFree from the trappings of hype this is simply a great album. Rock 'n' roll: just like they used to make. ...more
Drawer BGimme Fiction may not be your favorite Spoon record right now, but give it a few years. ...more
Austin ChronicleLike Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot into A Ghost Is Born, Spoon's fifth full-length finds further symbiosis between Britt Daniel's emotional obfuscation and the band's spare, uptown backbeat, then looses drummer Jim Eno to metronome the rest. ...more
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