Concert review: Spoon at the Aragon
Spoon's Britt Daniel at Aragon on Thursday. (Photo for the Tribune by Shauna Bittle)
Spoon’s Britt Daniel usually doesn’t say much onstage except to thank the audience.
But on Thursday at a sold-out Aragon, the singer-guitarist in one of indie rock’s longest-running, slow-build success stories had plenty to get off his chest.“It’s weird for me on stage tonight,” Daniel said as the encore began. “In the 22 years I’ve been playing rock shows, I’ve never experienced anything like this.”
The singer-guitarist was agitated all night because he said he couldn’t hear himself. Indeed, the mix was unusually loud and at times painfully distorted. Though the Aragon’s cavernous acoustics traditionally make it a tough place for a band to sound its best, part of the blame has to fall on a mix that one veteran concertgoer described as “Metallica-worthy.”