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The band Spoon was formed in 1993 by singer Brit Daniel and drummer Jim Eno.

They've released eight albums including their most recent record they want my soul which came out in August 2014.

In this episode Jim Eno breaks down the song Inside Out, explaining how it went from the original demo to the finished album version including what other music influenced the recording.

Plus we'll hear from their co-producer Dave Friedman, whose other credits include the flaming lips album Soft Bulletin and MGMT's Irregular Spectacular. Here's Spoon on Song Exploder.

Hi, this is Jim Eno, I play drums in Spoon. So there's Brit Daniel who is the songwriter guitar player and lead vocalist. There is Rob Pope who is the bass player Eric Harvey who plays keys guitar Alex Fichelle who plays keys guitars and a lot of other things.

We're talking about Inside Out, off of our latest record they want my soul. This is the first way I heard it.

You know the thing that I really love about this demo is that intro. It's not on the record, it's in five.

The time has gone inside out. The time gives the started breath. There's a tense gravity. I took a time for horror elements.

The lead may wash my feet. And I can't be the soldier.

Brit's always trying to throw curveballs at us. Sometimes I'll get something like this and it'll be a demo and he'll be like, hey this is something I'm working on.

And who like just sort of see what people do with that. He'll play a demo and he'll be like, okay let's figure out different ways to approach this.

So we would be like, okay Elvis Costello, I don't know, Iggy Pop. What would you do? And then we'll just imagine like how a band like that would actually approach this song.

It never sounds really like Iggy Pop or you too. It always sounds like spoon. But there's just these little things that seep in.

Brit played the demo but then he was like, hey I have this idea. Let's approach this like Dr. Dre's 2001.

There's a lot of slower tempos on that record. But a lot of really cool, hooky, simple melodic parts.

I think moving it into more of a beat oriented style was the right thing to do.

So we listened to some of 2001, then we just played the song a bunch of times.

I did what I thought like a Dr. Dre drumbeat would be.

Time's gone inside out. Time gets distorted.

So then you hear the new demo. I knew we were gonna sort of create a sort of like a sample kit to replace my drums.

So what I did here at the studio as I was working on building up snare samples and kick samples and things that I thought sounded good together that we took to Dave Friedman's.

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