Another great find from my recent musical shopping spree, Spoon’s They Want Me Soul is a tight, expertly crafted song cycle — which seems to be par for the course for these guys.
I own only three of the band’s eight albums, but all of them are similarly sparse and effective. Meaty, metronomic drums lay under stabbing electric guitars and front man Britt Daniel’s raspy vocals. It’s a simple sound but somehow one they’ve made their own.
As a whole, They Want My Soul may be the best of the three Spoon albums I own, though there is no song here I like as much as ‘The Two Sides of Monsiuer Valentine‘ from 2005’s Gimme Fiction.
Today’s song is one of my favorites from the new record. A YouTube commenter wrote this in response to ‘Knock Knock Knock’: “Animals-era Pink Floyd.” That comparison hadn’t occurred to me at all but once I read it, it struck me as a genius observation.
All lines are read, the film is done
After hours is on and now they’ll make another one
If you miss the meaning this time
Well here comes another one
[Verse 2]
And if you clap your hands, the man will fall
Hold your breath, he’ll shake himself to death
And the scenes get rearranged
And words unsaid
[Chorus]
Every day, I hear “knock knock knock”
Oh and it’s you
Oh every day, I hear “knock knock knock”
Then I see you and you’re shaking
And you’re breaking and you tell me I’m your only friend
And it starts all over again
[Verse 3]
You said you were living in a buttoned-up world
Living in 1892
There was nothing they could say to convince me
To blame nobody but you
[Verse 4]
[?] some truth and you know it’s gonna blow
But you don’t give a damn, don’t care who’s gonna know
You just want everyone talk slow
And give you consent
[Chorus]
Every time I hear “knock knock knock”
I know that it’s you
Oh every day, I hear “knock knock knock”
And I see you and you’re shaking
Oh you’re breaking so I put down my poison pen
And it starts all over again
[Outro]
And it starts all over again
And it starts all over again
[?] starts up to give
It’s all over again
Meet Me In Montauk 
I can hear the Pink Floyd sound here. This band is not on my radar at all, but I like this song.