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Amazon.co.uk Review
Built To Spill's third album, Perfect From Now On, was the one that broke the back of Doug Martsch--to all intents and purposes, the man that is Built To Spill--over the knee of the music industry. After an ill-fated tour with the Foo Fighters, which proved that the pierced hordes of the post-grunge generation don't take easily to the subtleties of warm psychedelia, sun-flecked harmony and songs with 'cellos, he gave up on the spirit-crushing world tours, the bland press interviews and the brainless meet and greet merry-go-round. Martsch is alt-rock's Brian Wilson--and that's no fatuous comparison, in the face of the incandescent six-minute rock & roll ceremony of opener "Randy Describes Eternity", or the tirelessly inventive lo-fi psychedelic garage-rock of "Made Up Dreams". Perfect From Now On is an obvious precursor to the modern-day Great American Psychedelic Rock records: the Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump or Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs. --Louis Pattison

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Built to Spill's three previous indie releases (on C/Z, Up, and K) established a new pop standard, born from lo-fi experimentation, carefully crafted hooks, plaintive vocals, and brilliant, snaky guitar lines. For their major label debut, Perfect from Now On, frontman Doug Martsch, who leads a revolving cast of musicians, has created his most ambitious album to date. Gone are the compact, simple ditties that characterized the band's recent recordings, replaced by the kind of longer epics that typified its C/Z debut, Ultimate Alternative Wavers. The songs--some clocking in at eight or nine minutes in length--combine the laidback intensity of Pink Floyd and Neil Young with a Beatles-meet-Pavement modern, pop aesthetic. It's at once dreamy, spooky, and spine-tingling and if there's any truly unexplored territory in rock music, you can be sure Built to Spill are in the vanguard. --Adem Tepedelen

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   3 of 4 people found the following review helpful: Built To Spills finest moment, 5 Jun 2001 By A Customer This review is from: Perfect from Now on (Audio CD) When you consider the trauma that surrounded the making of this album, it's a miracle it came out at all - line up changes, best friends falling out, writers block, recording hassles. However, Doug n the boys came through and produced their finest album ever. This album sounds massive, each song a mini masterpiece falling somewhere between the smashing pumpkins, pavement and neil young. Whilst perhaps not as easily accessible as other bts lps, once you've got in to it you'll want to tell the world about the day Built to Spill entered your life...  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   1 of 12 people found the following review helpful: James Joyce references in your pop music., 25 Oct 2005 By  N. Fawcett - See all my reviews    The album does rock, there's no denying that the guys can put together a catchy tune. If you like their other albums then this should rate highly with you. I certainly wouldn't call it a terrible album, however... The opening track to this album is Randy Describes Eternity; the lyrics from this track are reminiscent of the images used by a priest to illustrate eternity in the book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I think that sums up the lyrics on this album for me. I love Joyce, but I don't want references to him in the music I listen to. I think that too often Built to Spill have a cultured and well thought out point to make and unfortunately this makes the album seem pretentious. This is the problem I have with Built to Spill in general though. The name itself (I assume) is a kind of existential point: Man is built to spill, we are never satisfied or we are never 'nothing more than' the situation we are in. So we always overcome it or over flow from it. That's all very clever, but do you really want to listen to a band that's got an existential point to make?  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   BTS go PRog, 8 Sep 2006 By  blodwynswayze "blodwynswayze" - See all my reviews Probably the last really great BTS album, PFNO features none of the concise indie-pop numbers that made "there's nothing wrong with love" such a joy. Instead many songs build into great multi-segmented epics in true prog-fashion. The album is far more "produced" which suits the complex arrangements with a variety of classic keyboards, mellotron etc augmenting the guitars and cello of which there is less here. None of the songs have the messy feel of the earlier album and while none may quite hit the highs of TNWWL it also avoids its patchiness. Opener "Rdndy Describes Eternity" simply builds on its initial refrain gradually piling on layer after layer of tremelo-mad guitar. "Made Up Dreams" starts with a high treble mixed acoustic guitar and vocal before the whole band swings in, an awesome moment. However it is the final two tracks that really kill it both of which launch into fantastic driving epic finales, and with the winsome lyric "we're special in other ways, ways our mothers appreciate" Doug manages to wear his heart on his sleeve and wink at the same time while his fantastic band roars around him.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 3 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews