Built To Spill – Perfect From Now On 2LP Sale

Built to Spill s early 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 1997 major label debut, Perfect from Now On, frontman Doug Martsch leads a revolving cast of musicians on a sprawling nine-song set that stands as one of the band s most ambitious to date. Gone are the compact, simple ditties that characterized the band s recent recordings, replaced by the kind of longer epics that typified their C Z debut, Ultimate Alternative Wavers. The songs, some clocking in at eight or nine minutes in length, combine the laid-back intensity of Pink Floyd and Neil Young with a Beatles-meets-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!