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Hot Thoughts

Hot Thoughts
Studio album by
Spoon
ReleasedMarch 17, 2017
RecordedDecember 2015 – July 2016[1]
Studio
Genre
Length41:52
LabelMatador
Producer
Spoon chronology
They Want My Soul
(2014) 		Hot Thoughts
(2017) 		Everything Hits at Once
(2019)
Singles from Hot Thoughts
  1. "Hot Thoughts"
    Released: January 17, 2017
  2. "Can I Sit Next to You"
    Released: February 21, 2017
  3. "Do I Have to Talk You Into It"
    Released: October 23, 2017

Hot Thoughts is the ninth studio album by American rock band Spoon. It was released on March 17, 2017, through Matador Records.[3][4] It is also the first Spoon album since 2002's Kill the Moonlight to not feature multi-instrumentalist Eric Harvey, who quietly left the band after finishing a world tour in support of 2014's They Want My Soul.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.7/10[5]
Metacritic82/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
Chicago Tribune[8]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[9]
The Guardian[10]
NME[11]
Pitchfork7.4/10[12]
Q[13]
Rolling Stone[14]
The Times[15]
Uncut8/10[16]

Hot Thoughts received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82, based on 30 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[6]

Jillian Mapes of Pitchfork wrote "Spoon stay in their well-earned lane but tweak the formula just enough on their ninth album, keeping their reliably great songwriting and adding new, electronic textures."[12]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
ABC News Top 50 Albums of 2017
3
[17]
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2017
9
[18]
Diffuser.fm Top 25 Albums of 2017
4
[19]
Double J Top 50 Albums of 2017
14
[20]
Flood Magazine Top 25 Albums of 2017
6
[21]
The Ringer Top 10 Albums of 2017
4
[22]
Spectrum Culture Top 20 Albums of 2017
11
[23]
Time Out Top 29 Albums of 2017
14
[24]
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2017
13
[25]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hot Thoughts"Britt Daniel, Sean Dineen3:50
2."WhisperI'lllistentohearit"Daniel4:20
3."Do I Have to Talk You Into It"Daniel4:20
4."First Caress"Daniel, Alex Fischel2:48
5."Pink Up"Daniel5:56
6."Can I Sit Next to You"Daniel3:54
7."I Ain't the One"Daniel3:48
8."Tear It Down"Daniel, Laura Pergolizzi4:20
9."Shotgun"Daniel, Dineen3:38
10."Us" (instrumental)Daniel, Ted Taforo4:56
Total length:41:52

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes for Hot Thoughts[26]

Spoon

  • Britt Daniel – vocals, guitars, keys, piano, percussion, bass
  • Jim Eno – drums, percussion, keys
  • Alex Fischel – keyboards, piano, guitars, percussion
  • Rob Pope – bass, percussion

  Production

  • Spoon – production, recording, mixing
  • Dave Fridmann – production, recording, mixing
  • Brad Bell – engineering
  • Matt Gerhard – engineering
  • Mike Fridmann – engineering
  • Max Lorenzen – engineering
  • Grant Eppley – engineering
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering
  • Gentry Studer – mastering
  • Janet Weiss – song sequencing

Additional musicians

  • Sabrina Ellis – vocals (track 8)
  • Sara Houser – vocals (tracks 4, 6 and 8)
  • Stephen Patterson – extra drums (track 5)
  • Blair Robbins – vocals (tracks 4, 6 and 8)
  • Brad Shenfeld – darbuka, saz (track 5)
  • Ted Taforo – saxophone (track 10)
  • Sharon Van Etten – vocals (track 4)

  Artwork

  • Christine Messersmith – cover image
  • Alan Hynes – design
  • Britt Daniel – design

Charts

Chart (2017) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[27] 21
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[28] 31
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[29] 48
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[30] 194
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[31] 39
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[32] 27
French Albums (SNEP)[33] 192
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[34] 40
Japanese Albums Chart[35] 171
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[36] 8
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[37] 28
Scottish Albums (OCC)[38] 62
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[39] 100
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[40] 33
UK Albums (OCC)[41] 76
US Billboard 200[42] 17
US Top Alternative Albums (Billboard)[43] 2
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[44] 2
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[45] 2
US Vinyl Albums (Billboard)[46] 1

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  8. ^ Kot, Greg (March 24, 2017). "Spoon dances in the shadows with 'Hot Thoughts'". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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  23. ^ "Top 20 Albums of 2017". Spectrumculture.com. December 19, 2017. Archived from the original on July 19, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
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