Kill the Moonlight is the fourth album from Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

 indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Spoon

Spoon (band)

Spoon is an American rock band formed in Austin, Texas. The band is composed of Britt Daniel ; Jim Eno ; Rob Pope and Eric Harvey .-History:...

, released on August 20, 2002 to a great deal of critical acclaim.

Kill the Moonlight has sold roughly 153,000 copies, as of December 2009, according to Nielsen Soundscan

Background

"The Way We Get By" was released as a single. It was featured on the television shows The O.C.

The O.C.

The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...

 and Hustle

Hustle (TV series)

Hustle is a British television drama series made by Kudos Film and Television for BBC One in the United Kingdom. Created by Tony Jordan and first broadcast in 2004, the series follows a group of con artists who specialise in "long cons" – extended deceptions which require greater commitment, but...

 as well as in the films Mean Creek

Mean Creek

Mean Creek is a 2004 independent film produced by Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, and Hagai Shaham, written and directed by Jacob Aaron Estes and starring Rory Culkin and Josh Peck. The film concerns a group of teenagers and young adults who devise a plan to humiliate an overweight, troubled bully...

, The Puffy Chair

The Puffy Chair

The Puffy Chair is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. It screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival. It is considered part of the mumblecore movement...

, and Stranger Than Fiction. "Don't Let it Get You Down" can be heard in the 2005 comedy Waiting....

The song "Jonathon Fisk" is based on a bullying middle school classmate of songwriter Britt Daniel

Britt Daniel

John Britt Daniel is the co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of the Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon.-Biography:Britt Daniel was born in Galveston, Texas, and grew up in Temple, Texas, in a household of five children...

. According to Daniel, "Fisk" is now a fan of the band, and "came to all of [Spoon's] shows for about two or three years."

Reception

The album's title comes from a slogan in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...

's Futurist Manifesto

Futurist Manifesto

The Futurist Manifesto, written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, was published in the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dell'Emilia in Bologna on 5 February 1909, then in French as "Manifeste du futurisme" in the newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909...

.

The album was number 49 on Blender

Blender (magazine)

Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....

's 100 Greatest Indie Albums list.

The album was number 5 on Rhapsody (online music service)

Rhapsody (online music service)

Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version...

s "Alt/Indie’s Best Albums of the Decade" list.

The album was number 19 on Pitchforks "200 Greatest Albums of the '00's."

The album ranked #51 on Rolling Stones "100 Best Albums of the Decade."

Track listing

All songs written by Britt Daniel

Britt Daniel

John Britt Daniel is the co-founder, lead singer and guitarist of the Austin, Texas, rock band Spoon.-Biography:Britt Daniel was born in Galveston, Texas, and grew up in Temple, Texas, in a household of five children...

, except for where noted.

1. "Small Stakes" – 3:00
2. "The Way We Get By" – 2:38
3. "Something to Look Forward To" (Daniel, Miles Zuniga) – 2:17
4. "Stay Don't Go" – 3:35
5. "Jonathon Fisk" – 3:15
6. "Paper Tiger" – 3:07
7. "Someone Something" – 2:48
8. "Don't Let It Get You Down" (Daniel, Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards) – 3:29
9. "All the Pretty Girls Go to the City" – 3:12
10. "You Gotta Feel It" – 1:29
11. "Back to the Life" – 2:21
12. "Vittorio E." – 3:39

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2002	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Independent Albums	23