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LIVE
Built To Spill
(WEA/WARNER BROTHERS)
Now that Neil Young's music has gone all quiet for the time being, fans of his screaming electric guitar outbursts can console themselves with this exhilarating live offering from Built to Spill. For years, this Boise, Idaho, combo takes the electrified sprawl of Young's work with Crazy Horse further in the red, led by the guitar heroics of frontman Doug Martsch. Live is representative of their noisy appeal. Anchored by a steady rhythm section, and working within the framework of sturdy yet unconventionally structured rock songs, Martsch allows his menacing, barely-controlled Stratocaster to buzz, crackle, squeal and make sounds guitars aren't supposed to make -- his solo on The Plan, for instance, emulates a flock of shrieking seagulls. But the album's centrepiece is an epic 20-minute cover of Young's Cortez The Killer, a swirling force of nature that builds into a hurricane-forced maelstrom of cacophony before slowly subsiding into silence. Lovers of the electric rock guitar will be salivating.
Track Listing
1.The Plan
02.Randy Described Eternity
03.Stop The Show
04.Virginia Reel Around The Fountain
05.Cortez The Killer
06.Car
07.Singing Sores Make Perfect Swords
08.I Would Hurt A Fly
09.Broken Chairs