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\n\tIndie-rock heroes Spoon<\/a> are back with two new songs. The Austin, Texas, band just surprise-released \u201cChateau Blues\u201d and \u201cGuess I\u2019m Fallin\u2019 In Love,\u201d quintessential examples of the kind of sharp guitar bangers the band has been doing well for decades. It\u2019s the first new music they\u2019ve put out since their excellent 2022 album, Lucifer on the Sofa<\/a><\/em>. That album was a potent return to straight-ahead, band-in-a-room rock after a couple records that leaned more into studio craft, and everything about their new music suggests their next album will continue in that vein. \u201cThe songs that we\u2019ve done so far for the first half of the record are very rock-forward,\u201d says frontman Britt Daniel. \u201cThey\u2019ve been very extroverted-feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tDaniel says \u201cChateau Blues\u201d began as a \u201cas a country bar-band sort of swing,\u201d and then evolved into a driving rocker. \u201cI had this vision one morning as I was waking up of \u2018Chateau Blues\u2019 as a rock song. So I rewrote it as a song led by a riff \u2014 same key, same lyrics, almost the same melody \u2014 but the riff gave it life, and we added that Topper Headon<\/a>-esque machine-gun beat, and it was suddenly like, \u2018OK, yeah, this is definitely the way the song is meant to be.\u2019 It\u2019s a song about a man in his self-imposed exile, written from the point of view of his Uber driver.\u201d<\/p>\n