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- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Release Date: Jul 10, 2001
- Summary: The Boise, Idaho trio returns with a follow-up to 1999's 'Keep It Like A Secret.'
- Record Label: Warner Brothers
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
In Your Mind | |
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The symptoms of our getting older The problems that say we don't mind That most of us never get over The memories mingled with lies Coincidence gave... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Entertainment WeeklyA lovely surprise. [17 Aug 2001, p.72]
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Built To Spill relies on old-school verses/ choruses that demand humming just like that old-time rock 'n' roll...
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With their intensely layered harmonies, pounding rhythms and Martsch's own nasal drawl, songs like "Alarmed" and "You Are" are sublimely hummable pop gems.
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Once it establishes that it won't again radically update the Idahoans' sound, Ancient Melodies Of The Future reveals itself for what it is: a compilation of 10 more snaky, tricky, engrossing rock songs that continue in the vein of arguably Built To Spill's best album.
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For most other groups, it would be a winner, but for Built To Spill it's a slight comedown from their stellar streak.
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SpinBuilt to Spill used to grab for structure, dividing albums between compact songs and epic gushers; now the songs themselves throb like big guitar solos. [Aug 2001, p.137]
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Ancient Melodies of the Future sounds more like "vaguely familiar melodies of the past," but so do some of the best albums in rock.
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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SpankyMaloneSep 27, 2001Love the band, love this album.
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yarightJan 10, 2005moody, melodic, beautiful, bliss......
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JulianE.Aug 16, 2002
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JossS.Dec 25, 2001
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KrisBJan 19, 2006
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