Big Orange Crayonmusical thingsBuilt to Spill Keep It Like a Secret Warner Brothers/Up [I wrote this review a long time ago. It doesn't make sense. Sorry.] (***I didn't find out that the vinyl version was available from Up until after I bought the Warner Bros. CD and wrote this review. Oops.***) Built to Spill is way too good to be on Warner Brothers. Them and Cibo Matto make me feel dirty for buying records that I like... Anyway, this is a really good CD. It is from Built to Spill, after all. It's a bit poppier and upbeat than Perfect from Now On (but not as much as on the split 7" with Marine Research), but that's not really a bad thing, I suppose, but it's not really a better thing in this case, just different. Don't get me wrong, they're not prancing around and talking about cute little furry animals and things, it still rocks, it still is a bit whiney and it's still damn good. In fact, if it didn't come after Perfect from Now On, I wouldn't have said anything about it being poppy. "The Plan" starts off the album and sets the tone: strong, complex rock stuff with Doug Martsch's whiney-ish vocals and lots of guitar and so on, and it stays pretty solid from there, with each song different from the last and lots of variety between hard and soft and slow and fast. It's mad good. Yall. If you like emotional music and distorted guitars, you will like Built to Spill. In fact, you probably already do, so there's not much reason for me to tell you about them. This would be good indie rock if they were indie (well, I guess in some respects they still are since they release 7"s and stuff on indie labels...) So, in the case of this album, hand over your money to Warner Brothers, even though it will probably be put into indisious projects to inject the Backstreet Boys into poor, unsuspecting rabbits and monkeys. But wash your hands. Total score: 312 out of 312 |