Via Stereogum
When Doug Martsch spoke with Jessica, he talked about aging gracefully:
We have a bunch of records out. There’s no hurry for us to sell music. We can put out a a record every five or six years, and that’s plenty of Built to Spill music. The world doesn’t need a new Built to Spill record every year,” he says. “A new band, I could totally see that. It’s exciting to hear them put out a couple records in a hurry, but a band like us, we’re just fine.
The band’s seventh album There Is No Enemy is their first since 2006’s You In Reverse. Not a massive wait, no, but longer than some digital-age upstarts’ entire careers. You get a sense of the group’s wizened calm in slow-building standout “Things Fall Apart.” The title’s possibly a reference to William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” but the story’s more about apocalypse on an intimate scale: Still, check out the rousing trumpet solo.
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