Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret Album

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Keep It Like a Secret is the fourth full-length album released by indie rock band Built to Spill, and their second for Warner Bros. The initial tracks for the album were recorded on Nov 1997 at Bear Creek studios in Woodinville, Washington by Phil Ek, with overdubs recorded on mid 1998 at Avast Recording Co. in Seattle, Washington. Keep It Like a Secret was released on February 2, 1999. The album spawned two EPs: Carry the Zero and Center of the Universe. Pitchfork ranked the album at 41 on. Keep It Like A Secret. Time Trap. Built To Spill. Seriously, Keep It Like a Secret has already been spun at Club Jason five times within the past 24 hours. That's not a frequent occurrence- not unless it really, and truly is, love. Doug Martsch just knows how to tickle me in all of the happy places, and he accomplishes that on the merits of the opening number alone. The Plan is a brisk, weaving anthem complete with a solo that would make Thurston Moore green with envy. Keep It Like a Secret No, at the risk of hopping on a cliché wagon, I think I'm gonna tell all my friends about Built to Spill. Try and stop me, Diana. So I approached their follow-up 'Keep It Like A Secret' with only so-so expectations. Thankfully, I was pleasantly surprised, and in more ways than one In what I term a brave move, Built to Spill practically halve the running time of most of the tracks here, almost making it sound like this is a totally different band. While it is nowhere near the best track on the album, Built To Spill's approach to this album is decently summed up in the opener 'The Plan'. It begins as a nice and simple harmonic song for the first 2 minutes or so before breaking down with some distorted guitar effects that eventually result in the pace being slowed markedly for the final minute. 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 songwriting may be streamlined, but Doug Martsch now packs all of his twists, turns, and detours into dense, three-minute blasts. Main page. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret 1999. To favorites 1 Download album. Listen album. Indie Rock. Songs in album Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret 1999. Built To Spill - The Plan. Built To Spill - Center og the Universe. Built To Spill - Carry the Zero. Built To Spill - Sidewalk. Built To Spill - Bad Light. Built To Spill - Time Trap. Built To Spill - Else. Built To Spill - You Were R. By the beginning of 1999, Doug Martsch had already accomplished incredible things. Built To Spills singer, songwriter, and guitarist was still just 29 years old, but as recapped in this Spin feature, his largely excellent discography included three albums with Treepeople, his caterwauling first band formed during the brief period he lived in Seattle three more with the Halo Benders, a pairing with Beat Happening frontman and K Records guru Calvin Johnson and six. With Built To Spill, including a rarities compilation and a Caustic Resin collaboration. This piece originally ran in the February 1999 issue of SPIN. In honor of the 20th anniversary of Built to Spills Keep It Like a Secret, weve republished this article here. Doug Martsch, the leader of Built to Spill, has this winter coat with a hood and lots of pockets. It was yellow originally, maybe, or light brown, or tan-hard to tell through the stains. The guitaristsingersongwriter has had it, he says, eight years or something. Ive wanted to get a new one for a few years, but I just never shop. Go to thrift stores sometimes, but I never want to look at clothes. My mom sent me a pair. Keep It Like a Secret is the fourth full-length album from Washington based indie rock band Built To Spill, released in 1999 on Up Records. Keep It Like a Secret Q&A. Featuring Sam Coomes. Producers Doug Martsch & Phil Ek. Writers Brett Nelson, Doug Martsch, Scott Plouf & 1 more. Bass Guitar Brett Nelson. Listen free to Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret The Plan, Center of the Universe and more. 10 tracks 57:18. A new version of is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Built to Spill. Keep It Like a Secret. Play album. Get album