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"Nelson and his Suffocation Keep posse craft some solid tunes, speckled with hooks, topped with epic choruses, and wholly unpretentious."
-Pitchfork
FROM ROLLING STONE:
Suffocation Keep's Next Wave
Built to Spill side project begin building simple pop
Built to Spill bassist Brett Nelson's synth-drenched side project, the Suffocation Keep, entered a Boise, Idaho, studio last weekend to begin recording a follow-up to their May 14th debut release, John Hughes Was Never So Wrong.
According to Nelson, who wrote John Hughes at home with his four-track and then recruited local musicians and friends to play on the album, the band has solidified, and the current sessions will result in an album that reflects the cohesion. "On the new songs," he says, "we have more input from everyone else as opposed to just my ideas. [Keyboardist] John Mullin writes his own songs, and we collaborate on a lot of stuff. And everyone contributed some ideas."
Also, while the band rushed to finish John Hughes -- "We just had a small budget, and we wanted to get something out that we could sell on the road," says Nelson -- they'll take a full year to finish recording this time around.
Through the five-piece Suffocation Keep Nelson (who sings and also plays keyboards) explores musical interests that fall outside the scope of the guitar-rock-oriented Built to Spill. "It's kind of a New Wave, Eighties sound -- which I've always loved," he says. "Just kind of simple pop songs. There are no raging solo guitar jams, like in Built to Spill. It's focused ..boards, and the guitar parts that are there are played more like keyboard parts. We cover 'Send Me an Angel' by Real Life. And we're going to do 'Star Man' by David Bowie, but obviously that's a lot harder to figure out."
The Suffocation Keep will tour this summer between recording sessions.
Meanwhile, Built to Spill are on a break, and frontman Doug Martsch is working on his own solo album. Next spring, the band plans to reconvene to begin work on a follow-up to last year's Ancient Melodies of the Future.
AUGUSTIN K. SEDGEWICK
(May 21, 2002)
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Hey! Thanks for the add! We really appreciate it. Maybe we'll play a show you can come to some time! Ya never know! Have a great weekend and thanks again! Cannon
merch dude tried to hook me up at BTS show last night, had to drop him some coin though anyway, as i said before, i didn't need it for free, i just plain needed it, listened to it on the way home, sounds great. thanks again, brett nelson rules and so far i'm thinkin' we have found another diamond in the suffocation keep-again, thank you and please keep me posted on if you plan on touring and if salt lake is on the itinerary regards, jer
Hope are all having a great week! :) Just wanted to extend an invite to our show this Friday Feb. 8th @ Terrapin Station. low-fi, The Universal and Ian Waters Band, OH YEA!!! :) Come to the show if you are free.
