Stream: Spoon: "The Book I Write"
From the Stranger Than Fiction Soundtrack

When we heard that Spoon had created a new song for the soundtrack to the new Will Ferrell film Stranger Than Fiction, we knew not to anticipate an ambient drone piece or a skull-crushing noise dirge. And, as expected, Spoon deliver an upbeat ditty balancing just the right amount of polish and scuzz, with chugging acoustic guitar and piano infused with splashes of strings and horns (possibly synthesized). Close your eyes, and a montage of Ferrell engaged in a series of goofy antics is right there.

As previously reported, Stranger Than Fiction opens in theaters on November 10, and the soundtrack comes out on Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax on November 7. The score was composed by Spoon's Britt Daniel in collaboration with Marie Antoinette/Lost in Translation/Thumbsucker music supervisor Brian Reitzell. In addition to "The Book I Write" and pieces of the score, the soundtrack album includes the previously released Spoon tracks "The Way We Get By", "My Mathematical Mind", and "Vittorio E", as well as songs by Delta 5, Califone, M83, Maximo Park, the Jam, the Upsetters, and more.

In other Spoon news, the band recently updated its website to reveal that they are hard at work on their sixth album, working in their hometown of Austin, Texas with longtime producer Mike McCarthy. In an interview with Billboard.com last week, Daniel said that the album is half done, and that it is tentatively slated to be released in April or May of 2007. According to their website, songs being considered for the album include "Don't Make Me a Target", "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case", "Kindness Kills Them", "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga", "Black Like Me" (wha?!), "The Way You Said, Yeah He Did", and "Eddie's Ragga".

Stream: Spoon: The Book I Write [from the Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack]
Stream: Spoon: The Book I Write (Quicktime) [from the Stranger Than Fiction soundtrack]