C$ Was Built to Spill

Back in the day, when we were all a little younger, C$ told me about a band called Built to Spill. I took quite a shine to BTS’ Perfect From Now On but never really found the same beauty in Keep It Like A Secret or Ancient Melodies.

Back then I felt that a lot of indie rock bands suffered from some disjuncture between the need to write great music and a fear of writing great music. And while albums like Perfect From Now On and Modest Mouse’s Build Nothing Out Of Something were spectacular they seemed very choppy, very obtuse and anti-pop with their sprawling, unkempt orchestration.

Fortunately, both Isaac Brock and Doug Martsch have been able to reign it in a bit and release albums of tight, well-written and harmony rich tunes. Modest Mouse’s Good News For People Who Love Bad News helped gain them a wider audience. Built To Spill’s newest release You In Reverse should do the same.

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Stuff to Sample: From Built to Spill’s You in Reverse “Conventional Wisdom” and from Perfect From Now On “Out of Site”