Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  General Rock & Pop
• Format: CD
• Release Date: July 10, 2007
• Label: Merge Records
• UPC: 673855029528
• WAPI (Tower ID): 107315715
• Average Customer Review:    (1 customer review)
• Tower.com Sales Rank: #1183 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #511 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #319 in General Rock & Pop (See Top 100 General Rock & Pop Bestsellers)

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Rolling Stone (p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]piky, painstakingly detailed songs that deliver indie-pop payloads in less than four minutes..."
Rolling Stone (p.108) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "Spoon sound a lot like the very British, mid-Eighties XTC -- with the right amount of gravel in their paisley."
Spin (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The tug-of-war between bristly unavailability and candid confession mirrors a musical duel between post-punk snarls and genial pop charms.....Endlessly compelling."
Entertainment Weekly (p.67) - "[With] an arsenal of hand claps, Motown-lifted tambourine bursts, music-hall piano lines, and bass levels that hover in the red." -- Grade: A-
Uncut (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is their most systematically infectious set yet....'Finer Feelings' turns on a subtly seductive guitar figure that is the quintessence of tone and touch."
Alternative Press (p.163) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[L]isten afresh to Spoon now hitting all their marks: The poignancy of such instrumental minimalism, the emotional weight of Daniel's odd phrasings, the seeming nonchalance."
Q (Magazine) (p.80) - Ranked #25 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[Their] most elegant collection yet..."

Spoon: Britt Daniel (vocals); Eric Harvey (keyboards); Rob Pope (bass guitar); Jim Eno (drums).

Additional personnel: Billy White (flamenco guitar); Matthew Colecchi, Mike McCarthy (koto); John Catchings (cello); Tosca String Quartet (strings); Jason Freese (saxophone); Ron Blake (trumpet); Francisco Torres (trombone); Tommy Poole (horns); Jon Brion (bass guitar); Eggo Johanson (tambourine); Graham Hughes, Yasmine Kittles (background vocals).

Recording information: 2006 - 2007.

By 2007 Spoon had grown into one of the most quietly inventive and accomplished outfits in rock. Like 2005's excellent GIMME FICTION, GA GA GA GA GA is a winning combination of hook-heavy pop and post-punk angles driven by a unique piano-guitar interplay and singer Britt Daniels's expressive vocals. But Spoon's secret ingredient is their spare, often brilliant arrangements. Like a Japanese calligrapher drawing on rice paper, Spoon applies minimal lines and shading to make each song a meticulous pop universe full of texture and subtlety.

The ephemeral and appropriately haunting "The Ghost of You Lingers" is a fine example; its radically pared-down piano motif and elliptical melody sound like a cross between Terry Riley and Paul McCartney. "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" employs a bouncy Motown groove and horns, proving Spoon as adept at driving grooves as atmospheric pop, a fact echoed in "The Underdog," one of the album's standout tracks. Those accustomed to rock's usual bombast might dismiss GA GA GA GA GA for its reservation and seeming simplicity, but a closer listen reveals an album of elegant, admirably artful pop.

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