Are Spoon the 'best' indie rock band of the past decade?

Apparently.

(Taken from The Guardian, 18 February 2010)

In December the US website Metacritic embarked on a campaign to find the "best music of the decade". The site, which aggregates all the reviews it can find of as many albums as possible, collated 10 years' worth of album reviews – around 7,000 – to find out which artists had been the most critically admired over the previous decade. Near the top of its chart were many of the names you might expect: Radiohead, the White Stripes, Tom Waits, Sigur Ros and Elbow. Bob Dylan nestles at a respectable No 15. But top of the list – the best reviewed group of the 2000s – were a little band from Austin, Texas, who take their name from a Can song, and have been going for 17 years.

Metacritic's announcement that Spoon's four-album run from 2001's "stellar" Girls Can't Tell to 2007's "well, stellar" Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga received the highest "accolades from music press and music fans for their impeccable songwriting and addictive songs" took everyone by surprise. Everyone, that is, except Spoon's singer-songwriter, 38-year-old Britt Daniel.

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