Built to Spill is an American indie rock band that formed in Boise, Idaho, in 1992. Centered on lead vocalist and guitarist Doug Martsch, the only permanent member, Built to Spill has released nine albums since its inception. Martsch originally envisioned the band to feature a changing set of backing musicians for each album, but eventually settled with a stable lineup for over a decade before returning to his original plan in 2012.
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"Reflection of Youth is actually a record that comes up a bunch on my Spotify and every song that I've heard from it is really really good. I think she's a really good songwriter and she has a really good voice, so I was pretty stoked to find it on vinyl."Watch this moment
"I think they're like yeah late 60s fan, this is Charity Ball, and I haven't heard of Fanny Hill but I discovered these guys in college in the 90s... they were David Bowie's favorite band and then learning about them in terms of women in rock like these two are sisters from the Philippines and they grew up in Sacramento... the music's incredible and Alice de Burr the drummer is just incredible."Watch this moment
"I haven't heard of Fanny Hill but I discovered these guys in college in the 90s... they were David Bowie's favorite band... the music's incredible and Alice de Burr the drummer is just incredible."Watch this moment
"I picked up finally Wild Gift by X and I picked this from the employee pick section which is always an important place to go at your local Amoeba Records."Watch this moment
"Yeah, I love the artwork, but it's really great simple songwriting but like really lush gorgeous recordings, a lot of voices and yeah I love it I listen to it all the time."Watch this moment
"I got a king tubby record. I don't really know what it is or anything about it but I like dub music and it's almost all good. Pretty much all reggae, especially from the 60s and 70s, is all killer."Watch this moment
"I picked up Eddie Floyd's Knock On Wood and this was a pandemic listening for me for some reason... I spent a lot of time with Eddie Floyd in the shutdown."Watch this moment
"this is one of my favorite records from Esperanza Spalding she is an amazing jazz bassist conceptual artist as well... this record in particular is really rad because she uses some psych rock kind of influences there's like a little bit of a pop songwriting influence in there too."Watch this moment
"I got a Sweet Inspirations... but this has this song, this version of 'That's How Strong My Love Is,' it's just unbelievable for these... the way they harmonize on it, it's really one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard in my life."Watch this moment
"it's called Music for Cosmic Gardening and it's really cool because it's like an ambient record from two Japanese ambient artists... I love ambient records that I can kind of walk around and do stuff at the house at so I'm pretty stoked about it actually."Watch this moment
"Sentimental Fool... the first five I just listened straight through and just track after track I'm like oh my gosh, oh my gosh, how did I not hear this before."Watch this moment
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