Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon (or is it Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga?), pictured above, is an echo of a ghost from an alternate universe (perhaps where they're called Fork and the album is Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee). In that universe, Spoon's coiled intensity, without release, relaxes a little, into a place that's both less interesting than Gimme Fiction but also more satisfying, in some ways.Every song on Ga x 5 has its parallel on some other album by Spoon. There's nothing we haven't heard before. Not really. And yet, I still like it. I don't know that it will reward repeated (and repeated) listenings the way Gimme Fiction did, but I don't know if I mind that, either.There's a depth of sound and a signature sound to Spoon that no one else is really exploring right now. (The closest to that is probably Robbers on the High Street, but the comparison is very unfair to both bands, in a sense.)Spoon's treading water, or branching out in a very subtle way, but I'm still more than willing to tread water with them.Jeff