Has it really been more than 20 years? When Spoon released their debut, Telephono, back in 1996, the indie-rock landscape was about to go through a profound series of changes, sparked in large part by technological leaps in digital recording and studio electronics. For frontman Britt Daniel and his bandmates, that meant gradually augmenting their guitar-based sound, often compared to Pavement or the Pixies, with more artpop and even glam elements, thanks to Daniel’s growing obsession with the keyboard as a writing tool. Hot Thoughts reunites Spoon with the label that signed them, as well as with producer Dave Fridmann, whose well-known touch with The Flaming Lips peeks through in the psychedelic flourishes of the catchy title track and the Beatles-like “Tear It Down,” for starters. Apparently, the band drew profound sustenance from David Bowie’s oddball classic Lodger, the last of his “Berlin Trilogy” with Brian Eno; it lives in the swirling textures of “WhisperI’lllistentohearit” and the slow-boiling four-on-the-floor dance beat of drummer Jim Eno (no relation to Brian) that propels “Pink Up,” with Daniel’s hypnotic incantation of “Everything you think we are, we are” haunting the ethereal mix. Seductive and strange, this is the sound of a band that’s still testing new creative waters and finding entirely new gears.