Spoon Announce U.S. Tour
Indie rockers Spoon have announced a U.S. tour set to take place in early fall.
The trek is split loosely into a West Coast and East Coast leg, with the former starting September 3rd at the Ogden Twilight Series in Ogden, Utah, and wrapping September 25th with a set at the Ohana Fest in Dana Point, California. On October 17th, the group will kick off another leg at Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont, and that run will wrap on October 24th at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Nicole Atkins will provide support during all of Spoon’s headlining dates, although the band is also playing a handful of previously announced shows in California in late September with St. Vincent.
Britt Daniel and company released a greatest-hits compilation, Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon, in 2019.
They have released nine studio albums with the latest one being 2017’s Hot Thoughts. It is also the first Spoon album since 2002’s Kill the Moonlight to not feature multi-instrumentalist Eric Harvey, who quietly left the band after finishing a world tour in support of 2014’s They Want My Soul.
Hot Thoughts received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 30 reviews.
Jillian Mapes of Pitchfork wrote, “Spoon stay in their well-earned lane but tweak the formula just enough on their ninth album, keeping their reliably great songwriting and adding new, electronic textures.”
Last September, frontman Britt Daniel said the group was aiming to release a new record in 2021. While official news of the album has yet to arrive, earlier this year Spoon shared a pair of Tom Petty covers, while they also celebrated the 20th anniversary of Girls Can Tell by releasing a demo, “Lines in the Suit.”
Spoon 2021 Tour Dates
Show date and time: September 3, 2021 – October 24, 2021
Show location: Ogden Twilight Series, Ogden, UT – White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, NJ
