Built To Spill Announce Hiatus
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Interviews are hard. Forget what anyone tells you, or how cool it sounds to spend your time talking to people others spend their days and nights thinking about, when it comes to developing creative ways to pry into someone’s life who spend every day talking to people about their life before performing songs based off their life is a difficult task. You want to be original, but you also want to develop a real sense of conversation. Throwing in a curveball can derail things, especially if that conversational vibe you’re feeling is inauthentic in any way. Sometimes gold falls in your lap however, and that is exactly what happened to Pitchfork contributor Jayson Greene.
During a recent interview with Built To Spill‘s vocalist Doug Martsch, Green was told “without prompting” that Built To Spill is on hiatus and has no plans to produce new music any time soon. It wasn’t exactly you most would consider an official announcement, but following up on the comment Greene learned BTS is indeed taking time. You can read an excerpt from the interview below. Click here to ready the full article.
“He also shares with me, without prompting, that Built to Spill is on a bit of a hiatus. Their last record, the sweetly wry and surprisingly personal There Is No Enemy, is now four full years behind him. He spent some time recording material with his old rhythm section last year, but wasn’t having a very good time, he confesses. The songs were pretty good and I thought those guys did a great job, but I had zero eureka moments. I had no just even happy moments. I was a little bit worried about myself“ it’s harder getting older, thinking maybe I’ve run my course. I was happy to bag that record.