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Thirty Years Ago, Spoon’s First Album Changed My Life
Spoon is from Texas, but its music never felt Texan to me. Front man Britt Daniel was born in Galveston, grew up in Temple, and launched Spoon in 1993 in Austin, where it has remained—spiritually, if not always physically—ever since. His lyrics allude to the state’s highways and to hyperspecific Austin street corners. Spoon has performed on Austin City Limits five times. Daniel even dressed in cowboy gear in the video for the song “Wild” from Lucifer on the Sofa, a 2023 Grammy nominee for Best Rock Album. Despite these bona fides, the band has never made what I would call Texas music. Its slinky, sophisticated blend of British post-punk and New York art-rock, threaded with dub, funk, and Motown soul, has always seemed detached…The post Thirty Years Ago, Spoon’s First Album Changed My Life appeared first on Texas Monthly.