Kill the Moonlight
Kill the Moonlight is the fourth album by American rock band Spoon released on August 20, 2002 through Merge Records. The album features a stripped-down, minimal sound that incorporates various different instruments such as tambourines and pianos along with an idiosyncratic production style. The album has gone on to receive critical acclaim with its lead single "The Way We Get By" being used in various television shows, and is regarded as Spoon's magnum opus.[4][5]
For other uses, see Kill the Moonlight (disambiguation).Kill the Moonlight
August 20, 2002
January – March 2002
- The Garage (Austin, Texas)
- The Catacomb (Portland, Oregon)
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- Merge
- 12XU
Release[edit]
Released on August 20, 2002 through Merge Records,[15] Kill the Moonlight was one of the record label's biggest records, behind Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs, with 75,000 copies sold by July 2004[16] and roughly 153,000 by December 2009.[17]
Use in other media[edit]
"The Way We Get By" was used on the television shows The O.C.,[38] Shameless[39] and Hustle[39] as well as in the films Mean Creek,[40] The Puffy Chair[41] and Stranger Than Fiction.[42] It is also played in a 2020 YouTube commercial. "Don't Let It Get You Down" can be heard in the 2005 comedy Waiting....[43]