Hot Thoughts Explained

Hot Thoughts
Type:	studio
Artist:	Spoon
Cover:	Spoon_Hot_Thoughts.jpg
Released:	March 17, 2017
Recorded:	December 2015 – July 2016^[1]
Length:	41:52
Label:	Matador
Prev Title:	They Want My Soul
Prev Year:	2014
Next Title:	Everything Hits at Once
Next Year:	2019

Hot Thoughts is the ninth studio album by American rock band Spoon. It was released on March 17, 2017, through Matador Records.^[2] ^[3] 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

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".

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."

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank
ABC News	Top 50 Albums of 2017
Consequence of Sound	Top 50 Albums of 2017
Diffuser.fm	Top 25 Albums of 2017
Double J	Top 50 Albums of 2017
Flood Magazine	Top 25 Albums of 2017
The Ringer	Top 10 Albums of 2017
Spectrum Culture	Top 20 Albums of 2017
Time Out	Top 29 Albums of 2017
Under the Radar	Top 100 Albums of 2017

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes for Hot Thoughts^[4]

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
Japanese Albums Chart^[5]	171
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)^[6]	8
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)^[7]	100

Notes and References

Web site: Dave Fridmann/Tarbox News . davefridmann.com . Fridmann, Dave . Dave Fridmann . May 15, 2020 . April 23, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200423144509/http://www.davefridmann.com/News.html . live .
Web site: Matador Reveals Release Date, Tracklist for Spoon's New Album. Spin. January 17, 2017. January 17, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170117140750/http://www.spin.com/2017/01/matador-reveals-release-date-tracklist-for-spoons-new-album/. live.
Spoon Shares New Song, Will Return to Matador Records for March 2017 Album. Billboard. January 17, 2017. January 18, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170118215937/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7624507/spoon-matador-new-song-album-i-aint-the-one-video. live.
Hot Thoughts. Spoon. Matador Records. 2017.
Web site: https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/96231/products/1221093/1/. ja:ホット・ソーツ - スプーン. Japanese. Oricon. February 22, 2022. February 22, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220222173856/https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/96231/products/1221093/1/. live.
Web site: NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart. Recorded Music NZ. April 24, 2017. April 21, 2017. May 7, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170507134645/http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums?chart=4356. live.
Web site: TOP 100 ALBUMES — SEMANA 12: del 17.03.2017 al 23.03.2017. Productores de Música de España. Spanish. March 29, 2017. March 30, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170330013458/http://www.promusicae.es/listas/semana/3377-%C3%81lbumes-semana-12-2017. live.