Arguably the most consistently great band in music right now, Austin, Texas' own Spoon return with their 6th LP, the repeatedly rewarding Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Ga Ga is the most straight forward Pop-Rock record that Britt Daniel and the boys have come up with since Girls Can Tell with nearly all ten tracks clocking in at around the three-and-a-half minute mark and for the most part leaning away from the experimental tone that littered tremendous records such as the keyboard heavy Kill the Moonlight and the guitar noodling of Gimme Fiction.

Let's get things straight though, Ga Ga is anything but dull. The horn sections that fill in "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" and the trumpet work that accompanies the Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"-esque "The Underdog" fit in very nicely and the one experimental-type track "The Ghost of You Lingers" with Daniel's vocals bouncing from ear to ear over Eric Harvey's keyboard work is also phenomenal. Rob Pope's bass work on "Don't You Evah" would make even the biggest stiff shake their ass. The two best tracks though are actually saved until the very end. "Finer Feelings" finds Daniel pontificating "Sometimes I think that I'll find a love - I'll find it in commercial appeal and then this heartache'll get chased away." Daniel's personal struggle between artistic integrity and selling out for the big bucks is endearingly human. Album closer "Black Like Me" has the excellent double entendre line "Street tar and summer do a job on your sole" that makes the Elvis Costello fan in me beam from ear to ear. Never have I not loved a Spoon record and thankfully this one is no different. Goo Goo for Ga Ga? You betcha.