Blog: Aural States

If you've seen Built to Spill live in the last few years, you probably got a preview of a few of the tracks on There is No Enemy . "Good Ol' Boredom," "Life's A Dream," and "Done" are the kind of drawn out songs that originally had me suspecting the new album would follow in the vein of You In Reverse . However, while those are some jammier tracks that probably needed road-testing, the band has largely reined in the more free-form, improvisation-based structures that carried the day on their 2006 release. Instead, [...]