Built to Spill prep Spring ‘09 release
Built to Spill are busy working on their seventh studio album. But don’t get too excited yet, the upcoming followup to 2006’s You in Reverse won’t see release until the Spring…of next year.
In an interview with Billboard, guitarist Doug Martsch noted that the currently untitled work “will be a mix between newly penned material and retooled tracks considered but ultimately dropped from Built To Spill’s prior album.”
Martsch expects songs like “Nowhere Lullabye,” “Done” and “Good Old Boredom,” which Built To Spill has already tested out live, to make the cut, while the newer “Planting Seeds” is “a real conventional kind of pop/rock song. It reminds me of a Tom Petty song or something, but it probably doesn’t sound anything like that.”
Another tune that doesn’t yet have lyrics is “kind of like a Treepeople song; a fast, post-punk thing. We’ve recorded 15 songs but not everything will make it onto the record.” Built To Spill has completed a couple of overdubbing sessions for the project, but Martsch says the band is planning on returning to the studio until the end of June.
Martsch went on to reveal that the band will indeed tour in the Fall, but did not give any specifics. As of now, the Idaho rockers have only a handful of dates scheduled, which include the Sasquatch! Music Festival later this month and the inaugural ATP New York in September.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am
[...] off a performance at Sasquatch!, Built to Spill has unveiled an extensive number of dates for that previously mentioned tour. Entitled the Perfect From Now tour, the Boise, Idaho rockers will hit both the U.S. and Europe [...]