Built to Spill loves you. They want you to have a good time and think about how you're living all at the same time. Imagine if punk rock wasn't screaming in your face about your TV habits, more sidling up next to you at the bar to have a nice long talk about it all. There is social critique here, but it slides past your defenses and makes you think you're listening to pop music.
Mind you, it's not too cute, Keep It Like A Secret has an edge of sorts, but I think they keep it in their back pocket folded up. This collection of songs is the score for people watching in the suburbs, the endless milling of the masses around shiny new things. Here the food court anthem, there the trendy store sonata.
Some songs are human, beating the point home with driving beats and thick bass lines, others floating above you like seagulls in the parking lot outside. It is full of hope and a chance for living outside of the rules we pretend to obey. This album is trying to help you down the road with Modest Mouse, The Get Up Kids and Jets To Brazil.
Good for: Wondering what the hell post-punk is, staring longingly at open fields though plate glass windows.
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