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Built To Spill “You in Reverse” (Warner Bros.) By JENNIFER Y. KAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Five years after their last and disappointingly lackluster album, “Ancient Melodies of the Future,” Northwestern guitar rockers Built to Spill have approached a comeback with “You In Reverse,” their latest release. Formed in 1992 by prodigious guitarist and singer Doug Martsch, Built to Spill’s deeply melodic, spiraling rock compositions were so well-received as to make the band one of the most popular indie rock acts...
...slow-burning opener, “Swans (Life After Death),” follows the same sonic arc as Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” as a subdued introduction simmers to a major key climax before burning out in an extended, guitar-wanking, minor-key conclusion. The muddy, intoxicated instrumentation of “Where There’s A Will There’s A Whalebone” quotes a section of Jimi Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun” just before entering a borderline...
...with his song, who descends to Hades to rescue his recently-killed wife Eurydice. He convinces Persephone, wife of Hades and queen of the dead, to release Eurydice, only to lose her by looking back at her as they leave. Here, Orpheus is a rock star, with an electric guitar instead of a lyre. Instead of being married to Eurydice (Suzan Hanson), he has collided with her—literally—only once, when the taxi he was riding ran her over. She dies in his arms and becomes his obsession: Orpheus becomes haunted, refusing to play and brooding...
...Bible. Ritter also dashes in instrumentation unexpected for his genre, and with an impressive act of arrangement, it works well. The record-opener “Girl in the War” puts the mandolin to such use, while catchy “Wolves” follows up with guitar and piano, and “Monster Ballads” borrows a gospel feel with tasteful organ use. Ritter even allows the lyrics of “Idaho” to exist almost without accompaniment; he sings the soulful melody with just a hint of acoustic guitar. Instead of forcing...
...Whenever you hear those five twangy guitar notes of sadness that introduce and end every scene...