"This one is pure Spoon", says frontman Britt Daniel of Transference, the highly anticipated new album from the Austin, TX indie alt/rock, art/pop mainstays, "for better or worse." New project is the band's first full-length since 2007's well-received Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and follows up last year's EP Got Nuffin, the title track of which will be reprised on Transference. Spoon has released seven albums since first  launching with a debut EP in 1994, each one successively finding greater sales success. Ga Ga was the band's first top 10 album, selling nearly 50,000 copies its first week out.

 "This is the first record we've made without a producer or heavy of any kind," continues Daniel, "and I don't know for sure because I'll never hear this record in the same way that someone who didn't make it will, but I think you can tell it. I can. When I listen to it I think, hey, that's how I woulda done it! Which is really what you wanna to hear from a band, isn't it?" We'll speculate that Spoon is looking to ratchet things up a bit with a bit more dissonance and ragged riffs this time around after many critics praised Ga Ga but found the band in something of a "if it ain't broke" holding pattern.

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Spoon - "Got Nuffin" (from the 2008 EP Got Nuffin and forthcoming album Transference)