Alex Fischel

Spoon
Spoon performing at Outside Lands festival in 2014
Background information
Origin	Austin, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Indie rock indie pop art rock experimental rock
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Peek-A-Boo Matador Elektra Merge ANTI- Loma Vista Recordings
Associated acts	Skellington The Get Up Kids The Alien Beats Drake Tungsten Golden Millennium Divine Fits
Website	spoontheband.com
Members	Britt Daniel Jim Eno Rob Pope Alex Fischel
Past members	Roman Kuebler Josh Zarbo Andy Maguire Greg Wilson Sean Kirkpatrick Eric Harvey

Spoon is an American rock band formed in Austin, Texas. The band is composed of Britt Daniel (vocals, guitar); Jim Eno (drums); Rob Pope (bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Alex Fischel (keyboard, guitar). Critics have described the band's musical style as indie rock,indie pop,art rock, and experimental rock.

Formed in 1993 in Austin, Texas by Britt Daniel (vocals, guitar) and Jim Eno (drums), Spoon released their debut studio album, Telephono, in 1996. Their next full-length, A Series of Sneaks, was released in 1998 on Elektra Records. The band subsequently signed with Merge Records, where Spoon achieved greater commercial and critical prominence with the albums Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill the Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007), Transference (2010), and They Want My Soul (2014). The band's ninth album, Hot Thoughts, was released on March 17, 2017, on Matador Records.

The band was formed in late 1993 by the lead singer and guitarist Britt Daniel and the drummer Jim Eno, after the two met as members of The Alien Beats. The name Spoon was chosen to honor the 1970s German avant-garde band Can, whose hit song "Spoon" was the theme song to the 1985 movie Das Messer aka Jagged Edge in the United States. Eno describes Spoon's music as "psychedelic."