Photo by Marty PerezThese days, we're stuck deep in that weird, dispiriting gulf between Spoon albums. You know the drill: The last one, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, is a year-and-a-half old now, and we've heard all the songs enough times that we know when each little guitar ping will come in. But the band hasn't announced any plans for another album yet, and we know it'll probably be a while. So we actually have to turn to old Spoon albums to fulfill our daily spiky-minimal-pop needs. This isn't entirely a bad thing (Girls Can Tell still bangs!), but any new Spoon news would be welcome news indeed.Well, here's something: As Jon Spong's (pretty good!) Texas Monthly profile of frontman Britt Daniel reveals, Daniel is in Los Angeles right now cutting demos with film composer and Fiona Apple/Kanye West/Of Montreal buddy Jon Brion. "We're writing together, which is different for me," Daniel tells Spong. "I’ve never gone somewhere to write with someone. I wrote some things once with Miles Zuniga [of Austin's Fastball], but that was more, 'We need a verse, now a chorus.' This is doing things with individual sounds, things that could become sections of songs."Brion produced "The Underdog", which some (not this writer, but some) consider to be Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga's best song, so it's already been established that Brion's heavily orchestrated impressionism makes a surprisingly good match for Spoon's arch spaciousness. read more