Editorial Reviews
Keep It Like a Secret
Music Review:
Music Review
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonate a Tre (Trio Sonatas), Volume II - Ensemble "Aurora"
Music: Una Faccia in Prestito [Import]
Albeniz: Sonatas for Piano Nos.3, 4, & 5/L'Automne
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Doug Martsch is enough of a guitar god to fill Keep It Like a Secret, one of indie rock's strongest 1999 major-label releases, with blazing solos. He's also ambivalent about the whole thing, which allows him to highlight the album with "You Were Right," a despairing litany of classic-rock lyrical hooks. --Rickey Wright
Amazon.com essential recording
Most guitar heroes make their mark by doing something extravagant, like playing with their teeth or with their instrument in flames. Doug Martsch of Boise, Idaho's Built to Spill has acquired his guru status by simpler means--he combines his trippy, meandering guitar style with classic pop structures. Martsch also wins points for singing about small-scale moments as well as huge moral abstractions, from watching TV to contemplating the center of the universe. By subtly balancing the forest of... read more