Name: When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Brand: Built To Spill

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP1510X

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Colour

green

Colour details

Misty Kiwi Fruit Green.

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Custom Dust-Sleeve and Poster.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

098787151008

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

SPCS1510

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Extended format: No

Four-Panel J-Card in Clear Case

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Tape

098787151046

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1 / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / Tape

SP1510

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black

098787151015

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

SPCD1510

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 Gatefold Alt-Pack with Custom Dust-Sleeve and Poster

098787151022

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Built To Spill

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Since the band’s inception in 1992, Built to Spill founder Doug Martsch intended his beloved band to be a collaborative project, an ever-evolving group of musicians making music and playing live together. 

Following several albums and EPs on Pacific Northwest independent labels, including the indie-rock classic, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, released on Sub Pop offshoot Up Records in 1994, Martsch signed with Warner Brothers from 1995 to 2016. He and his rotating cast of cohorts recorded six more great albums during that time – Perfect From Now On, Keep It Like a Secret, Ancient Melodies of the Future, You In Reverse, Untethered Moon, There Is No Enemy. There was also a live album, and a solo record, Now You Know. While the band’s impeccable recorded catalog is the entry point, Built to Spill live is an essential force of its own: heavy, psychedelic, melodic, and visceral tunes blaring from amps that sound as if they’re powered by Mack trucks.

Now in 2022, Built to Spill returns with When the Wind Forgets Your Name, Martsch’s unbelievably great new album (and his eighth full-length)... with a fresh new label. “I’m psyched: I’ve wanted to be on Sub Pop since I was a teenager. And I think I’m the first fifty year-old they’ve ever signed.” (The rumors are true, we love quinquagenarians…)

When the Wind Forgets Your Name continues expanding the Built to Spill universe in new and exciting ways. In 2018 Martsch’s good fortune and keen intuition brought him together with Brazilian lo-fi punk artist and producer Le Almeida, and his long-time collaborator, João Casaes, both of the psychedelic jazz rock band, Oruã. Martsch fell in love with their music the moment he heard it. So when he needed a new band for shows in Brazil, he asked them, and the partnership went so well Martsch, Almeida, and Casaes continued playing together throughout 2019, touring the US and Europe and ultimately recording the bass and drum tracks for When the Wind Forgets Your Name at Doug’s rehearsal space in Boise. After Martsch tracked guitars and vocals, they group collaborated from afar to mix the album.

What emerged is When the Wind Forgets Your Name, a complex and cohesive blend of the artists’ distinct musical ideas. Alongside Built to Spill’s poetic lyrics and themes, the experimentation and attention to detail produces an album full of unique, vivid, and timeless sounds, from guitar-driven rock odes to REM and Dinosaur Jr to bluesy ‘60s-style anthems to dub-reggae-inspired instrumentation.

It may have taken 30 years of obvious fandom and courtship, but Sub Pop Records is unabashedly proud to finally release an excellent new album from Built to Spill: When the Wind Forgets Your Name. Sometimes persistence pays off.