photo by Oliver Halfin

Spoon have announced they will release a new greatest hits compilation album, Everything Hits at Once, July 26 via Matador Records. The Austin indie rockers also shared their first single in two years, “No Bullets Spent.”

The collection, named after the leadoff track of Spoon’s 2001 album, Girls Can Tell, features the new single along with 12 tracks taken from throughout the band’s extensive career, including cuts like “I Turn My Camera On” from 2005’s Gimme Fiction and “Inside Out” from 2014’s They Want My Soul.

“The idea of doing a best-of came to us a couple times,” says frontman and primary songwriter Britt Daniel in a press release. “First I wasn’t sure how I felt about it but at some point I remembered that when I got my first Cure record it was Standing on a Beach. When I got my first New Order record, it was Substance. That was how I met those bands, and I moved backwards from there but I still listen to those comps. I love a greatest hits LP when it’s done well. It can be a thing unto itself.”

“Honestly, it was a struggle,” he continues, speaking on selecting the tracks. “I was listening to the old records and jotting down the songs—if you wanna turn the volume up, that’s a good sign. The list really got whittled down, so these are the best. ‘I Summon You’ was never a huge song, wasn’t for the radio, but it had to be on there. It’s one of the best things we’ve done. I wanted to represent Transference, even though it’s not really a ‘hit’ type of album—‘Got Nuffin’ was the closest thing. It did get to a point where I started feeling like, ‘We gotta represent this album in some way, we’ve gotta represent this change in some way.’ ‘Everything Hits at Once’ was a turning point for us—a minimal new wave soul type of rock song. It’s a small collection trying to cover a lot of years, but I hope it does what The Singles record by the Pretenders or Hot Rocks did for me—cover a lot of ground and then if you want to find out more, you can find out more.”

Listen to “No Bullets Spent” below. Spoon kick off their summer tour dates with Beck and Cage the Elephant July 11 in Ridgefield, WA. Check out the full schedule here.