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Built to Spill make you work harder for epiphany. Where the Verve specialize in guitar hypnosis, singer/guitarist/songwriter Doug Mart.erh spins you 'round with slash-'n'-jangle guitar math and the kind of cryptoverse games that summon discomfiting memories of mid-'70s Yes albums. Yet Perfect From Now On, Built to Spill's major-label bow, is progressive rock in the most earnest sense of the term: a record of risk, invention and inspired forward motion, away from indie-rock cliche and out to What the Fuckville. Martsch walks a fine line between garage-opera spectacle (the spiralingguitar suite "Untrustable/Pt. 2 [About Someone Else]") and utter ham (the cosmological jive in "Randy Described Eternity"). But he does it with nerve and verve.
(Posted: Dec 29, 1997)
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