This is the first record we’ve made without a producer or heavy of any kind and I don’t know for sure because I’ll never hear this record in the same way that someone who didn’t make it will, but I think you can tell it. I can. When I listen to it I think, hey, that’s how I woulda done it! Which is really what you wanna hear from a band, isn’t it? This one is pure Spoon.

Five of the 11 songs on Transference, the new album from Spoon, are the original demos.

What was the band listening to when they were making this record?

ACDC – Dirty Deeds Done Cheap
Prince Buster – Wreck a Pum Pum
David Bowie – Low
The Damned
Sister Nancy
Micachu and the Shapes
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Warsaw
Bob Dylan
Cliff Martinez