I'd never actually listened to Spoon before, and seeing so many people mention them, I picked up Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga tonight. The first thing that caught me was that they're on Merge, the label one of my all-time favourite bands (The Magnetic Fields) were on before signing to Nonesuch Records. I must say, I'm pretty impressed. The songs are well-written, the vocals good, and the production quite interesting at times. Good stuff. I'm still on my first listen, so I'm sure it'll grow on me more and more as I listen again (and with this one, I think it'll be again and again).

Hey PF, we've already got a thread on this terrific album here. If you would, could you cut and paste your comment over in that thread, and I'll close this one.