Spoon - Rent I Pay

Spoon have likely made a sweet dime or two out of their seven previous records, but they still capture the dollar-sponging sprawl of living in New York with ‘Rent I Pay’. It’s a song devoted to couch-surfing, bank account checking, unfortunate boozing, hedonism for no real reason. A city lifestyle captured in cutting fashion, it also confirms that Spoon have been spending all their rent money on more studio gear.

The fullness and sharpness of Spoon’s recordings is one of the big, de-facto associations with the band. It probably gets a touch tedious, studio knowhow being their biggest attribute. But ‘Rent I Pay’ is more than a casual show-off blitz - it’s a song that proves that despite being in the business for 20 years, Spoon can jostle with the best of them, their frustration having no bounds.