Over since In Rainbows? Despite the multiple single releases, there's really only been one album's worth of material since In Rainbows. Don't write them off after one album.

I know, man. I'm actually a Houstonian attempting to make a joke, and some of us can make an almost convincing case that we are actually Number Three ahead of Chicago.

They need to polish up their new live show in the podunks before starting the real tour.

Sing is one of their best songs. So is Wear Me Down.

Love the name. That's one of Spoon's finest songs.

It has grown on me as well. I really didn't like it very much the first time I heard it, and every Ladytron album before this had grabbed me from the first listen.

The Bends has Planet Telex.

"It makes more sense that Gore was simply growing up, and that hormonal
love songs were no longer enough to sustain the band’s creativity or
long-term prospects."

Agreed.

Can't a completionist's album be (merely) pretty decent?

"As innocent as ice cream?"

Same here as well. Eponymous delayed the expansion of my IRS collection for many years.