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Spoon Returns with First Album in Four Years, “They Want My Soul”
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Spoon Returns with First Album in Four Years, “They Want My Soul”

Spoon’s eighth album, , is the band’s first in four years. It also marks the Texas band’s shift from an indie label (Merge) to a major (Loma Vista, an imprint of Universal Music Group) and the addition of a new member — Alex Fischel on guitar and keyboards. During that four-year hiatus, bassist Rob Pope (also of The Get Up...