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Gimme Fiction

by Spoon

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  • 2000's
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  • 2005
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating: 3.4132 Gimme Fiction is ranked overall as 3.4132 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3320 Gimme Fiction has an avg. critic score of 3.3320 out of 4 stars

Gimme Fiction Album Reviews

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Excellent
4
 
(20)
Very Good
3
 
(18)
Good
2
 
(2)
Fair
1
 
(0)
Poor
0
 
(3)

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Stylus Magazine
Creative evolution’s a boon and a bane. In many ways, Spoon’s idiosyncratic progressions forced them to forge a new fan-base with every record. ...more
PopMatters
As 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 room, ...more
Stylus Magazine
Each 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
Entertainment Weekly
Strings swoon, falsetto voices sigh, and counterpoint piano lines glide.
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Tiny Mix Tapes.com
So 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...read the complete review at Tiny Mix Tapes.com
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Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
Though I can imagine putting this on at year's end and remembering every song with a kind of surprised admiration, I can't imagine doing it any sooner--or any later either....read the complete review at Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
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Alternative Press
Some of [Daniel's] stripped-down material sounds...read the complete review at Alternative Press
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musicOMH.com
Dear Reader,How are you? I hope this letter finds you in good health. Now, I realise it's been a while since we've spoken - I'm not looking to apportion blame, as we all know it was your fault - but I've decided to do the honourable thing and get back in...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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