Love Ways

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Love Ways
Spoon-Love Ways.jpg
EP by
ReleasedOctober 24, 2000
RecordedJune–July 2000
Genre Indie rock
Length15:34
Label Merge Records
Producer Britt Daniel and Jim Eno
Spoon chronology
A Series of Sneaks
(1998)
Love Ways
(2000)
Girls Can Tell
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Pitchfork 7.9/10 [2]

Love Ways is the fourth EP by the indie rock band Spoon. It was released on October 24, 2000, by Merge Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Change My Life" – 4:29
  2. "I Didn't Come Here to Die" – 3:08
  3. "Jealousy" – 2:09
  4. "The Figures of Art" – 1:46
  5. "Chips and Dip" – 4:02

Personnel

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References

  1. Carroll, Bryan. "Spoon – Love Ways". AllMusic.
  2. Mirov, Nick (October 24, 2000). "Spoon: Love Ways EP". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on July 14, 2007.