emotional heft". Release Released on August 20, 2002 through Merge Records, Kill the Moonlight was one of the record label's biggest records, behind Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs, with 75,000 copies sold by July 2004 and roughly 153,000 by December 2009. Reception The album received "universal critical acclaim" upon release, with many critics and fans alike later on considering it to be one of Spoon's best albums. Accolades The album received end-of-year accolades from a variety of publications in both the US and the UK, continuing to receive end-of-decade ones as well after it came to an end. The majority of the latter, as shown below, came from US publications. According to Acclaimed Music, as of August 2018, the album is the 63rd most acclaimed album of the decade and the 643rd most acclaimed album of all time. Use in other media "The Way We Get By" was used on the television shows The O.C., Shameless and Hustle as well as in the films Mean Creek, The Puffy Chair and Stranger Than Fiction. It is also played in a 2020 YouTube commercial. "Don't Let It Get You Down" can be heard in the 2005 comedy Waiting.... Track listing Personnel Spoon Britt Daniel – vocals, guitar Jim Eno – drums Joshua Zarbo – bass guitar Additional personnel Eggo Johanson – keyboards, piano, tambourine Roman Kuebler – bass guitar Mike McCarthy – 12 string guitar Brad Shenfield – dabouke John Clayton – bass guitar Matt Brown – saxophone Charts The album peaked at number 23 on the US Independent album charts. References 2002 albums Spoon (band) albums Merge Records albums