Soft Effects
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Spoon - Mountain to Sound
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From my favourite Spoon recording, 1997's Soft Effects EP, comes the most complete statement of mid-1990s "alternative" rock as imagined by the writers at Spin magazine and by 17 year old longhair stoners: more guitars and more distortion, a few power chords, all played at the pace of skateboards passing over the cracks in the sidewalk, the whole thing building up to a perfectly formed wall of even more guitars and distortion.
[buy the reissue]
posted by ian at 10:48 AM
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This was the very first Spoon song I ever heard, and at the time, I fell for it so hard that I listened to it compulsively 30+ times a day. Spoon's little releases (Soft Effects, esp. Loveways) have always been just as exciting as the LPs.
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