Perfect from Now On

Rolling Stone (2/6/97, p.49) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Built To Spill dip into the psychedelic garden cultivated by guitar-based precursors, from the Beatles to the Flaming Lips....maintains an emphasis on instrumental passages that are short on flash, but long on atmospheric swirl..." Spin (2/97, p.84) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Martsch's ability to avoid derivativeness,...to keep generating ideas and achieve bigness through the accumulation of small parts [amazes]. Let the pieces of this album sink in and, sure enough, you won't be able to get Martsch's sounds out of your head." Entertainment Weekly (1/31/97, p.58) - "...Muddling around in a fog of spacey guitar, nasal vocals, and meandering song structures, they seem to stumble on melodies by accident....When the fuzzy guitar lines and pinched vocal whines mysteriously mutate into recognizable songs, the band discovers beauty in excess." - Rating: B+ Alternative Press (4/97, p.65) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Martsch is posessed with a genius for...lyric writing and the ability to create memorable and unusual songs....although its entertaining enough to appeal to a wide audience, PERFECT still contains enough personality to make Martsch's excellent vision uniquely his own." Melody Maker (5/16/00, p.47) - 3 stars out of 5 - "If Neil Young singing with some sort of Radiohead/Seventies-metallers Rush amalgam appeals, this is the album for you..." Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #32 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Paste (magazine) - "'Stop the Show' is three or four different movements packaged together as one mammoth rock song."