This is vintage Spoon. But there’s also an old-school undercurrent pulsating through this song that makes it a little different than most of the band’s catalog. This throwback feel is the endearing quality of the brilliantly simple “The Way We Get By”. It’s the reason we love the song. Piano-driven. Stripped-down sound. It’s not a common rock song, but it also wasn’t made in common times, getting recorded just months after 9/11.

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