Spoon have just released their 10th album, Lucifer on the Sofa.

It was written and recorded over the past two years in Austin, Texas. The 10 songs are loud and colorful and oh-so-Spoon-like.

I spoke recently with frontman Britt Daniel about the title track. You can hear David Bowie's Blackstar influence. Check out what he told Jill Riley about “The Hardest Cut.”

Here’s part of my conversation with Daniel:

Mary Lucia: The one that really grabbed me right away was called "On The Radio." Part of me wonders, because I don't think everybody is so jaded that they can't remember the first time they heard their own music on the radio. Perhaps you're driving or wherever you were, but radio being such an old medium and such an intimate medium too--radio, was it important to you growing up?

Britt Daniel: Yeah, very important. That's what the song's about, is growing up in Temple, Texas, and having a clock radio on the side of my bed when I was very young that helped me feel less lonely because this world is an adult world. When you're a kid, there's so many things you wish you could be doing. But you can't. It's out of your control. If parents say it's time for you to just hang out at home, then you got to hang out at home. And so I did a lot of that. I was home alone in my room, and hearing the radio, it helped me realize that the world is still going on out there. That was a comforting feeling, that felt good to me.

Read the rest of the interview right here.

The Album of the Week is supported by the Zephyr Theatre’s Ice Palace Maze