Spoon

With its jagged guitar lines, taut grooves and oblique lyrics, Spoon's second album, A Series
of Sneaks was probably never going to sell a million copies. Still, their label, Elektra, never
waited around to find out, dumping the band four months after releasing their frazzled 1998
gem. Now reissued by Merge with two additional tracks, Sneaks hasn't lost any bite. "June's
Foreign Spell" is nothing less than savage -- a furious stomp of harrowing riffs and... More >