Spoon "Lucifer On The Sofa" 2023-09-15 but playing with Mike again

but playing with Mike again brought back a magic that can't be explained

the third installment in the band's New Age Norms series

or the same instrumentation again

with production by Ministry's Al Jourgensen and the high-velocity opening pairing of the high-velocity instrumental "Big Sky" and the blistering lament "Baddest of the Bad

Mixing the industrial grime of New York City with the vibrant bounce of the dirty South

Spoon "Lucifer On The Sofa" 2023-09-15 but playing with Mike againSpoons tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is alive, vital and inarguably the bands heaviest work to date. The first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown, Austin, in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two years both in and out of shutdown these songs feel like a culmination of Spoons career while marking a shift toward something louder, wilder, and more vivid.