Sometimes, Fangirls, there is just some grooves so deep, some riffs so tasty, that I feel like I’m going to burst with enjoyment. I may or may not have screamed when I found out that Spoon was finally making a return after a four year hiatus. But it was nothing compared to my excitement when I first heard this song. Spoons music always gets me outrageously pumped and full of delight. But they’ve really out done themselves here. Seriously. This song is so good.
Thank goodness mp3s don’t get cruddy, because I’ve been wearing this track out. Every time I’ve gone to put on music for the last week, I can’t help but turn this song on instead of anything else. I could listen to it over and over and over again. And I do.
Spoon’s music has always ignited something within me. It makes me go nuts. I dance like a fool, shout at the top of my lungs, I become overcome with an exhilarating, almost intoxicating, sense of joy. “Rent I Pay” is a perfect portrait of that sort of feeling. It pulses. Hammering guitar and bass, pounding drums, and Britt Daniel’s dream boat, powerhouse vocals. It’s goddamn electric.
The song opens in a more subtle way, growing up to the intense jam it becomes. A simple drum beat bring us in, then guitars are added one by one, until that lovely pulsing is created. Enter the vocals, that lovely shouty howl that Daniel’s delivers us. The vocals & the way everything comes together in the song at 43 seconds gets me every damn time. I grunt & shout out of pleasure every time it comes up. That magic happens again at 2:26, so you can hear it a second time around. But let’s be honest, you’ll be listening to this song hundreds of times over.
This hammering staccato beat is broken up a bit in this dreamy sort of bridge that makes the whole song. The same effect happens at the end of the song, and it’s a lovely close. The very subtle layers of vocals in the background swooping about, and the light & bouncy bass, it’s a perfect compliment to those riffs presented in the rest of the song.
The sound of a song hasn’t felt this powerful to me in a while, Fangirls. I’m happy that Spoon took their time off to bounce back with such a fantastic album as their new release They Want My Soul, which this song is featured on. I wanted to review the whole thing, but I was so stuck on this song, I had to dedicate the whole article for it. But take my word for it, the rest of the album rocks almost just as hard. I still have to listen to this track a few times before I continue on with the rest of the record though. Join me in the jam, Fangirls. It’s fucking unreal.
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