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Hear Built to Spill’s Jangly New Single, ‘Understood’
Built to Spill has released “Understood,” the second single from When the Wind Forgets Your Name, its debut album for new label Sub Pop. The track was inspired by daredevil Evel Knievel’s unsuccessful 1974 jump over Snake River Canyon in Built to Spill frontman Doug Martch’s hometown of Twin Falls, Idaho. As previously reported, When the Wind Forgets Your Name is out on September 9 and features a new Built to Spill lineup with Martsch backed by Brazilian musicians Lê Almeida and João Casaes. Martsch is currently on tour with a different rhythm section, consisting of bassist Melanie Radford and drummer Teresa Esguerra. [embedded content][embedded content] “Making When the Wind Forgets Your Name was such a great experience,” Martsch says. “I had an incredible time traveling and rec...
Built to Spill to Release First New Album in Seven Years
Built to Spill has announced plans to release a new album When the Wind Forgets Your Name, their first release since 2015’s Untethered Moon. The new nine-track album is the band’s first release through Sub Pop and will be available in full on September 9, 2022. The album is available for preorder here. Today, the band has released the lead single “Gonna Lose,” along with a dynamic, humorous, and psychedelic animated video. The video was directed by Jordan Minkoff and features animations from Minkoff and Lee McClure. [embedded content][embedded content] Built to Spill has also scheduled over 70 performances set for the spring, summer, and fall. The tour dates kick off April 13th at Chicago’s House of Blues supporting Jawbreaker for a four-night set of performances and ends in Septembe...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
How Built to Spill Became the World’s Best Daniel Johnston Cover Band
Sometimes your favorite band gets sick of being themselves. “We started doing a ton of covers when we switched rhythm sections a few years back – maybe 2015,” Built to Spill frontman Doug Martsch explained over the phone from the comforts of quarantine at his home in Boise. “Brett Nelson and Scott Plouf had played in the band for 15 years or more and both quit at the same time. So we got a new rhythm section and together we learned a ton of Built to Spill songs, but also a bunch of covers – part of it was to try to make the whole thing more fun. Jim Roth, Brett Netson, and I were kinda tired of playing Built to Spill songs, so… [Laughs.] Learning a bunch of covers was really fun and kind of informed this whole thing.” And by that, Martsch means the shows Built to Spill played with the late...
