Built to Spill
Built to Spill were one of the most popular indie rock acts of the '90s, finding the middle ground between postmodern, Pavement-style pop and the loose, spacious jamming of Neil Young. From the outset, the band was a vehicle for singer/songwriter/guitarist Doug Martsch, who revived the concept of the indie guitar hero just as Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis -- another important influence -- was beginning to fade from the limelight. On record, Martsch the arranger crafted intricate, artfully knotted tangles of guitar; in concert, his rough-edged soloing heroics ...[more]
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This is an aqua blue Built To Spill shirt in women's size SMALL featuring the album cover for Keep It Like A Secret.
Small Shirt $19.99
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This is a Built To Spill shirt in size LARGE featuring a psychedelic-inspired graphic of houses on a hilltop with the band logo printed underneath.
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This is an aqua blue Built To Spill shirt in women's size EXTRA LARGE featuring the album cover for Keep It Like A Secret.
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This is a navy Built To Spill shirt in size EXTRA LARGE featuring a graphic of a rainbow over a tree and a pond.
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This is a 25" x 19" poster for the September 23, 2008 Built to Spill show with the Meat Puppets. It is a two color print, hand-signed and numbered in an edition of 125.
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This is a 13" x 20" poster for the March 16 Built to Spill show with The White Meat Puppets at the Blue Note. Hand-signed and numbered. Designed by Jeff Brooks. Please note: the upper right hand corner of this poster is slightly bent.
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This is a navy Built To Spill shirt in size YOUTH SMALL featuring a graphic of a rainbow over a tree and a pond.
Small Shirt $19.99
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As definitive a concert document of the band as we're likely to get, and it's close to being essential listening even for fans that aren't keen on live albums. 'Live''s defining performance is a 20-minute cover of Neil Young's 'Cortez the Killer,' on which Doug Martsch's vocal and guitar work bear an amazingly accurate similarity to Young, almost to the point of flat-out imitation. Yet somehow, the performance doesn't feel derivative -- it seems more like Martsch is staking out long-coveted territory and on [ read more ]
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Perhaps realizing that their time on a major label was likely limited, Built to Spill made a gutsy choice for Keep It Like a Secret, their second album for Warner Brothers. They embraced the sounds of a big studio and focused their sound without sacrificing their fractured indie-rock aesthetic. In a sense, this is Built to Spill's pop album: every song is direct and clean, without the long, cerebral jamming that characterized their earlier albums. That's not to say that the album is compromised -- the song [ read more ]
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Order There Is No Enemy and receive a link to download the album track "Hindsight" immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Three and a half years in the making, the efforts of writing and recording There Is No Enemy led Built to Spill founder Doug Martsch to wonder whether this would be the last album he ever makes. For this release, song lyrics were labored over then thrown in the trash, guitar parts revised again (and again). A musician and artist like Doug Martsch edits [ read more ]
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