“Is that Kevin Spacey or James Mercer in the car?” asked a YouTube user. The question is for the video for the pre-release song “Fool’s Gold,” and it’s Built To Spill founder and songwriter Doug Martsch, who pulls off a whimsically cinematic slow-motion transformation from cruising pavement philistine to well-coiffed stage rocker . Martsch has been celebrating meandering, sometimes great guitar bustle music off the rock highways since 1992 with a changing cast of comrades-in-arms – and now, seven years after the last album UNTETHERED MOON, for the first time on the still very decent SubPop label.
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If the “label research” is correct, Built To Spill will be the first band by a 51-year-old to be signed in Seattle. Anyway, Martsch and his men, this time lo-fi punk artist and producer Le Almeida and his colleague João Casaes from the Brazilian band Oruã, are either playing past time or rolling over it. Mastered by the enigmatic Mr. Martsch, Built To Spill 2022 shortens indie rock as we know it with a drum and bass slink that can still be heard the morning after club night (“Rocksteady “) – or with the guitar sirens of psychedelic pop (“Spiderweb”). “Fool’s Gold” is the fine whistles-along in the midst of this well-curved rock landscape.
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