Wednesday 25 August 2010

Spoilt, but ill

Given the name of this blog, a Built To Spill related post has been a long time coming, but here it is, and it arrives due to improbable circumstances. Doug Martsch & co. have self-released a 7-track mini-album under the moniker "The Electronic Anthology Project", which transforms one track from each of their LPs into an unlikely slice of synthpop. The track names are all anagrams of their original source (so The Weather becomes At The Where, Get A Life is now Age I Felt etc.). It's clearly a bit of low-key fun, with the moody reworking of I Would Hurt A Fly into What If Your Dull being the album's unqualified success. There's some minor revelations here too; who would've thought that Going Against Your Mind could ever be made to sound like A-ha's Take On Me?

Should there be a Volume 2 to this project, here are some of my suggestions:

Time Trap -> Prime Tat
Kicked It In The Sun -> I Hide Sunken Ticket
Stab -> Bats
In Your Mind -> Your Dim Inn
Carry The Zero -> Razor Cry Thee
Lie For A Lie -> Life Or A Lie
Liar -> Rail
Planting Seeds -> Dealings Spent

I'm desperate for suggestions for Velvet Waltz!

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