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Built to Spill
“Goin' Against Your Mind”

[2006]
Doug Martsch and Built to Spill come to us from another time, a less cynical era that believed in the transcendent power of the solo. While even the simplest guitar bands these days feel the need to have at least one person checking their e-mail onstage, BtS insist on covering "Freebird" unironically, even "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".

Granted, later BtS albums felt compromised, with collapsed arrangements and humbler goals. But rejoice: "Goin' Against Your Mind" signals that You In Reverse is Martsch's return to sprawling Perfect From Now On form, a nine-minute track where the three-way fret conversations start right away and only yield the floor to Martsch's still-pubertal voice after several laps. The singing parts are common but brief, mere islands amidst the jammy seas. Here the soloists, through spacey valleys and trilling peaks, remember there's nothing wrong with sounding epic.

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