Within each 3-minute song, Daniel and his bandmates played and sang only what was absolutely necessary. Daniel’s guitar-playing was more like a series of stabs, jabs and feints. His gangly elbows and knees jutted out in time to the twitchy bursts of notes, while drummer Jim Eno played with an economy that sometimes required him to play barely at all. Eric Harvey hunched over an electric keyboard and drizzled counterpoint melody lines against Daniel’s voice, while bassist Rob Pope straddled the line between rhythm and melody with a minimum of fuss. This was a finely tuned machine, and the in-concert incarnations of the songs hewed closely to the studio originals. Spoon isn’t and never will be a jam band.
Finely tuned machine, indeed.
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