How Spoon Helped Me Find My Seattle Groove

by Leilani Polk Zackery Michael
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga was the album that made me like Spoon. But Seattle made me love the Austin indie-rock band. Which, without context, probably doesn't make much sense.
Let me explain.
I came to Seattle from the Tampa Bay area for a fresh start—for love and nature and music and legal weed, because I wanted to feel inspired and challenged, because I needed to live in a city among people I could actually relate to. But I misjudged just how hard it would be to leav