When Britt Daniel moved back to Texas full-time in 2019, he was focused on having fun. So he got to work with his Spoon bandmates on a new record. Spoon’s tenth album, “Lucifer on the Sofa” turned out to be a longer-than-expected project, but that happened for a very good reason. Daniel just kept writing songs, and had a good time doing it.
“We thought we were done,” Daniel said. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “And I had nothing else to do, so I ended up writing a lot of songs. Songwriting was the thing that kind of made me feel the most normal.”
Daniel says he also spent time digging into the entire catalog of that little ol’ band from Texas, ZZ Top, after seeing them live in 2019. It shows on the album, especially in songs like “The Hardest Cut.”
“We started with some chords. Alex [Fischel] brought in chords and I suggested a beat that was similar to ‘Run, Run, Run’ by The Who,” Daniel said. “And after we had those two things going together, I came up with that riff.”
For awhile, the song was just called “Texas Riff.” Daniel says it sounds like a Texas driving song. And it’s not the only one on the album that would sound good coming through a car’s speakers while rolling down the highway.
