From year to year Spoon have built an impressive, fanatical international following. Despite some seriously lean years and harsh circumstances (innumerable exploding bass players, being banned from Wyoming until 2004, Daniel's recent brush with death via electrocution), the band have succeeded in creating their own musical vocabulary and their own creative identity. Whether their commercial success ('Girls Can Tell' sold more copies in 2001 than the band's combined back catalogue had managed in 5 years) continues to grow exponentially is far less relevant than what Daniel and Eno are producing in Jim's studio; mind blowing, life affirming rock'n'roll records than are a match for any classic you care to name.