Concert Review: Spoon at Liberty Hall, April 20

Spoon, with Olympic Size

Sunday, April 20

Liberty Hall

Review and Illustration by Grant Snider

Spoon makes consistently great albums, with critical response and commercial success building for each release. They’re one of few high-profile indie rock bands New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones could accuse of “musical miscegenation.” They even appeared on Saturday Night Live to promote Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – the reason for this end-of-tour performance at Liberty Hall in Lawrence, only a few weeks removed from a tour-opening show in Kansas City. “We’ve come full circle,” frontman Britt Daniel quipped. With this kind of exposure, it’s doubtful they’ll ever be mistaken as a band consisting of the surviving members of The Lovin’ Spoonful.