Went to a sold out Spoon concert last night and can hardly remember when I've had so much fun on a Monday night. My friend Maria and I got there an hour after doors opened, but it wasn't late enough to miss the unfortunate first opener, The Strange Boys. The lead singer sounded like a failed yodeler whenever he sang, but their musical instrument chops were ok.
Next was one of my recent iPod acquisitions, Deerhunter. Despite a high-looking bassist, they managed to pull off the musical excellence that I came to expect from their album, Microcastle. They replicated their ambient sound on stage, but at the cost of completely muffling the lyrics.
Finally, Spoon came on at 10:15, three hours after doors opened (photo courtesy of Dcist). Britt Daniel looked sharp and sounded crystal clear as he opened with an acoustic version of The Underdog. Soon, Daniel was joined by the rest of the band, leaving soft acoustics behind. Spoon played nearly every song from its latest album, Transference. This made for much dancing along, but also got redundant after a while since most of their songs from their last two albums sound the same. At least the interesting lighting changes between each song helped distinguish them.
Despite this, it was still incredibly fun to see Spoon replicate live the sounds that I thought were pure production on their albums. Spoon's albums have this interesting echo that I thought was done by recording multiple layers. In fact, it seems like an echo setting on the amp can do this for you, which sounded great live.
I was a bit disappointed that Spoon only played two tracks from my favorite album Kill the Moonlight (Someone Something and Jonathon Fisk), but the concert definitely inspired me to listen to Transference a few more times.
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