Spoon

One of indie rock's most critically acclaimed acts, Spoon have a reputation for being consistently inventive and inventively consistent. They arrived as brash post-punkers in the post-grunge lull of the mid-'90s, but in the following decade, Spoon truly came into their own. On 2001's Girls Can Tell and 2002's Kill the Moonlight, they stripped rock down to its essence, then used the space that remained to play with shifting rhythms, taut guitars, and literate lyrics in innovative and timeless ways. This heady blend of precision punk and serpentine classic rock (the band has dra...