“Everything Hits At Once” by Spoon

"Everything Hits at Once" opens Girls Can Tell, Spoon's fourth album, and it went out as the record's second single on September 10, 2001. The band set out to make it sound unlike anything in their back catalog, and you can hear the new reference points: a little Fleetwood Mac in the glide, a little Elvis Costello in the bite, and a mellotron solo to boot. It's taut and patient and quietly sly, the kind of song that never raises its voice and still gets under your skin.

Critics have kept praising how it's built and written ever since, and when Spoon gathered their greatest hits in 2019, they named the collection Everything Hits at Once after it.

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