Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On
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Artist: Built to SpillEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-01-28
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Randy Described Eternity
- I Would Hurt A Fly
- Stop The Show
- Made-Up Dreams
- Velvet Waltz
- Out Of Site
- Kicked It In The Sun
- Untrustable/Part 2 (About Someone Else)
Free Music Notes for Perfect from Now On
Free Music Review: Unrestrained near-miss, but a must for fans
Hit: 4 Stars
Their third album is the first one on a major label and so they do what any indie-gone-pro would do...make a fifty-five minute album with eight tracks? Did they not read the handbook for getting big with short and catchy pop songs? In fact, Built to Spill teeters into prog-rock territory, a dangerous place to be even for those that did it well (hell, even King Crimson released some really bad music).
For more proof beyond the song length, look at the bluster of some of these songs, particularly on the lyrical side, where frontman Doug Martsch goes for the occasional bombastic-supersonic vision. But...it still IS Built to Spill, and even though only a couple of songs check in under six minutes, even their messes can be glorious. And not all of Martsch's songwriting has a flair for the over-dramatic--sometimes the music and lyrics are appropriately stark and dour (quite the contrast from the usually upbeat work on "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"). I prefer their earlier album, of course, but on the well-paced and rhythmic "I Would Hurt a Fly" to the constantly driving "Untrustable Part 2," and even the tempered drone of "Randy Described Eternity," Martsch and company remind us that even excess can sometimes be a thing of beauty.
Best cuts: "I Would Hurt a Fly," "Untrustable Part 2 (About Someone Else)," "Made Up Dreams," "Randy Described Eternity," "Stop the Show," "Velvet Waltz"
Perfect from Now On Poster
Built to Spill's three previous indie releases (on C/Z, Up, and K) established a new pop standard, born from lo-fi experimentation, carefully crafted hooks, plaintive vocals, and brilliant, snaky guitar lines. For their major label debut, Perfect from Now On, frontman Doug Martsch, who leads a revolving cast of musicians, has created his most ambitious album to date. Gone are the compact, simple ditties that characterized the band's recent recordings, replaced by the kind of longer epics that typified its C/Z debut, Ultimate Alternative Wavers. The songs--some clocking in at eight or nine minutes in length--combine the laidback intensity of Pink Floyd and Neil Young with a Beatles-meet-Pavement modern, pop aesthetic. It's at once dreamy, spooky, and spine-tingling and if there's any truly unexplored territory in rock music, you can be sure Built to Spill are in the vanguard. --Adem TepedelenAlternative Rock Music CDs
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