- rock, alternative, indie rock
- 35 min
- 12 tracks
- Merge Records
Kill the Moonlight is the fourth studio album by American rock band Spoon released on August 20, 2002, through Merge Records. The album features a stripped-down, minimal sound that incorporates various different instruments such as tambourines and pianos along with an idiosyncratic production style. The album has gone on to receive critical acclaim with its lead single "The Way We Get By" being used in various television shows, and is regarded as one of Spoon's best albums.
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Character
Spare, character-led, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 88/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork8.9/10
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
- Spin7/10
- Uncut4/5 ★
- The Village VoiceA
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Tracks
- A1Small Stakes3:00
- A2The Way We Get By2:40
- A3Something to Look Forward To2:17
- A4Stay Don’t Go3:35
- A5Jonathon Fisk3:15
- A6Paper Tiger3:07
- B1Someone Something2:48
- B2Don’t Let It Get You Down3:29
- B3All the Pretty Girls Go to the City3:12
- B4You Gotta Feel It1:29
- B5Back to the Life2:21
- B6Vittorio E.3:39
12 tracks, 35 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Spoon
- Label
- Merge Records
- Released
- August 20, 2002
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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