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Dateline - Boise, 1999: The big news for Built To Spill and its fans is that bandleader and guitarist Doug Martsch has finally violated his own policy of voluntarily rotating rhythm section members. Solidifying a permanent, full-time lineup, Martsch welcomes into the fold drummer Scott Plouf, and bassist Brett Nelson, a longtime cohort of Martsch's. Together, Plouf and Nelson lift Built to Spill from an intermittent, isolationist, solo act owned and operated by Martsch, to a vaunted trio capable of standing on its own six feet, primed with new material and at last in possession of a collective creative vision. Together, they've recorded Keep It Like a Secret, Built To Spill's most accomplished and focused effort to date.
The trio, assembled after the material from BTS's acclaimed major label debut Perfect From Now On was recorded back in late 1995, had some trouble working up Martsch's unusual compositions with their ever-shifting time signatures and seemingly random, progress...