The Daily Spin II

Spoon | They Want My Soul

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: They Want My Soul (2014)

Artist: Spoon

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They Want My Soul, first and foremost, feels like an album about nothing.

Normally, that’s not a good thing at all. Here, it’s still not great, but Spoon are an unusual band in that the nothingness seems significantly more intentional. Suppose it’s something to do with this being their eighth album or something like that.

My struggle here is that, for all the bluster about the ‘spontaneity’ and the gravitas of this record, that nothingness pervades in a way that goes beyond the creature comfort it pretends to be. The record winds up vacuous, spacey without any real direction or intent - and maybe that’s the intent, but it doesn’t mean I have to be a fan of it.

Rating: 6/10

Best Tracks: Inside Out

Worst Tracks: New York Kiss