The Spoils (U.S.S.A. album)

1. "Dead Voices" (4:26)
2. "Autumn Flowers" (4:11)
3. "Blue Light" (4:22)
4. "Cruel Beauty" (2:03)
5. "Middletown" (4:36)
6. "Summer Endless Summer" (5:04)
7. "Forget Yourself" (3:25)
8. "Cab Ride" (4:34)
9. "Peculiar Thing" (6:04)
10. "Sugarwater" (4:38)
11. "Wasteland" (5:31)

Ben Lasman of CMJ New Music Monthly, in a negative review, wrote that the album "plays like a cleaned-up retrospective of modern rock cliches flooded with misguided cock-rock swagger".{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ES0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59|title=Abridged reviews|last=Lasman|first=Ben|magazine=CMJ New Music Monthly|number=151|date=October 2007|page=59}} Comparing its sound to Faith No More, Stephen Seigel of Tucson Weekly called The Spoils less dissonant than expected but "no less thrilling for the lack of it".{{cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/soundbites/Content?oid=1089296|title=Soundbites: Palatable 'Spoils'|last=Seigel|first=Stephen|work=Tucson Weekly|date=2007-10-11|accessdate=2018-02-03}} Writing in Boise Weekly, Brandon Nolta called it "edgy, sometimes creepy and never less than entertaining", though it may not appeal to fans of its members' former bands.{{cite web|url=https://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/ussa-the-spoils/Content?oid=934718|title=USSA: The Spoils|last=Nolta|first=Brandon|work=Boise Weekly|date=2007-11-21|accessdate=2018-02-03}} Greg Prato of AllMusic described it as "both arty and exploratory" without being snobbish. Prato compared the sound to first generation post-punk bands, including Barker's own The Blackouts.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-spoils-mw0000748230|title=USSA: The Spoils|last=Prato|first=Greg|work=AllMusic|accessdate=2018-02-03}}

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• [http://www.myspace.com/ussaband U.S.S.A. at MySpace]
• [http://ussa.fuzz.com/ U.S.S.A. at Fuzz Artists, Inc.]

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