GIMME FICTION 4/29/2003 Down by the Ocean 2

Down by the Ocean 2

Standouts include the over-the-top intensity of the opening track

Recording information: Bearsville Recording Studios

the album then concludes with "Comforter

GIMME FICTION 4/29/2003 Down by the Ocean 2The three year stretch between Gimme Fiction and Kill the Moonlight was the longest gap between Spoon's albums since the end of their disastrous relationship with Elektra Records helped put two and a half years between A Series of Sneaks and Girls Can Tell. In its own way, Gimme Fiction feels like as much of a refinement on what came before it as Girls Can Tell did at the time: theatrical and seething with late night menace, the album sounds bigger