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Built to Spill: When the Wind Forgets Your Name

by mr. hipster September 27, 2022
September 27, 2022
When the Wind Forgets Your Name
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When the Wind Forgets Your Name
Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Sub Pop
Release Year: 2022
Listen: Spotify / Apple Music

Built to Spill has been a band longer than it’s been legal for me to drink. Because of that longevity I primarily think of them as a 90s band. This stems from my ongoing love affair with their first four studio albums that were put out between 1993 and 1999 (and 1996’s compilation album, The Normal Years). But, until this album, When the Wind Forgets Your Name, they’d put out exactly as many studio albums in the twenty-two years of the 2000s as they had in those six years in the 90s. So, with four albums in the 90s, and now their fifth in the 2000s, does that make them a 2000s band? Not on your life.

Maybe it’s because of their very workmanlike, Gen-X touring schedule. Or their commitment to making Built to Spill music thirty years on. But this is like every indie rock fan of a certain age’s totem of sorts. In the realm of a Dinosaur Jr., but just obscure enough to claim a more authentic fandom. An almost grandfatherly coolness that is kind of its own thing. Anyone can claim to love Pavement, after all, but Built to Spill feels more inside baseball. A band with seemingly much larger aspirations if you were to listen to their music, but also more timeless in its approach. As a person who retroactively went out and bought everything in Doug Martsch’s oeuvre, including the discography of his earlier band, Treepeople, and his Calvin Johnson collab, The Halo Benders, I would say that I was a devotee. And would name check them as a favorite for years. Until they kind of no longer became a thing in my mind, despite them continuing to record and tour post-2000. Shame on me, really.

So, what is 2022 Built to Spill up to? After all, it’s been seven years since their last album, Untethered Moon. Well, if you’re to listen to the intro of track one, “Gonna Lose,” you’d be as impressed as I was. The rip-roaring guitars. The perfect Built to Spill moments of break down, build up and guitar heroism. All with Martsch’s incredibly familiar high-pitched warble. And then it’s over a mere two-and-a-half minutes later. Man, Doug, what happened to your penchant for seven-minute opuses? Opera? Did you know the plural of ‘opus’ is ‘opera?’ Me neither. Anyway, “Gonna Lose” turns out to be a bit of an outlier here. Which is unfortunate. The album, at only nine tracks, falls into this mid-tempo thing that isn’t my favorite, uh, BPM. It’s just a bit disappointing after hearing the muscular intro track.

It even feels at times like Martsch is goofing around, like on this slinky, stoney song, “Rocksteady.” It kind of plods along. It feels like in the old days it would downshift into some sort of crunchy chorus. Or something beyond what amounts to some odd studio tricks at the very end of the tune. Not that their music was ever “serious” per se, but there is some floatiness going on across this album that feels like it could have been punched up quite a bit. But is content to just float along. I don’t know if that’s a production thing, or just the structure of the songs. But Built to Spill was always so good at playing with dynamics, and lot of these tunes feel a little samey-samey tonally within the songs themselves. And when there are dynamic shifts, they feel a little too distant and echoey to be truly effective gut punches.

Look, man, we all age. We all live on some modicum of nostalgia. We all wish to have back what we once loved. Our metabolisms. Our hairlines. Our close-up vision. Our indie rock heroes. The thing is, those albums exist. They were written and performed and they will always be with us. So this need not be that. Yet we can’t help but wish it to be. This is all to say that When the Wind Forgets Your Name isn’t in any way a bad album. It’s just not 90s Built to Spill. And nothing ever will be ever again.

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      Actionslacks: The Scene’s Out of Sight

      July 25, 2025

      Album Reviews
      The Wrens: The Meadowlands

      July 23, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Sioux Falls: Rot Forever

      July 14, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Turnstile: Never Enough

      July 8, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Empty Country: Empty Country II

      July 30, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Wavves: Spun

      July 28, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Actionslacks: The Scene’s Out of Sight

      July 25, 2025

      Album Reviews
      The Wrens: The Meadowlands

      July 23, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Sioux Falls: Rot Forever

      July 14, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Turnstile: Never Enough

      July 8, 2025

      The Music List
      The Grunge Diaspora

      August 15, 2024

      The Music List
      I Still Own a Lot of CDs

      June 13, 2024

      The Music List
      Top Listens 2023

      January 1, 2024

      The Music List
      In Defense of: OMC’s “How Bizarre”

      July 18, 2021

      The Music List
      Top 25 Influential Rock Albums

      May 1, 2020

      The Music List
      In Defense Of: Ruben Studdard’s “Sorry 2004”

      December 29, 2019

      Concert Reviews
      The Get Up Kids @ Starland Ballroom

      February 27, 2025

      Concert Reviews
      The Dirty Nil @ White Eagle Hall

      January 26, 2025

      Concert Reviews
      The Beths @ White Eagle Hall

      September 26, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Pearl Jam @ MSG

      September 9, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Cloud Nothings @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

      May 15, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Band of Horses @ The Wellmont Theater

      February 13, 2024

  • Movies
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      Mickey 17

      July 22, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      Mountainhead

      July 4, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      Fountain of Youth

      June 24, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      A Different Man

      June 10, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      Problemista

      May 22, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      Flipside

      May 4, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      The Gorge

      March 2, 2025

  • Books
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      Trust

      June 19, 2025

      Book Reviews
      Razorblade Tears

      May 24, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Plot

      March 14, 2025

      Book Reviews
      Maximum Bob

      February 17, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Sympathizer

      January 6, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Zone of Interest

      July 12, 2024

      Book Reviews
      Klara and the Sun

      April 13, 2024

  • Podcasts
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      The Wedding Scammer

      March 1, 2025

      Podcast Reviews
      Search Engine

      November 27, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Hysterical

      August 30, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      60 Songs That Explain the ’90s

      March 31, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Otherworld

      February 29, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Behind the Bastards

      February 13, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Time Crisis

      January 26, 2024

  • Booze & Grub
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      Coda Kitchen & Bar

      July 29, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Sweet T’s Southern Eatery – Montclair

      July 24, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Tinga Fresh Mexican & BBQ

      July 23, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Falafel Hut

      July 12, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      McDonald’s (West Village)

      July 10, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Seoul Bistro

      July 4, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      McDonald’s (West Village)

      July 10, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      CAVA – 350 Hudson

      June 19, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Westville Hudson

      April 25, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Five Guys – Midtown West

      January 25, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Jaz Indian Cuisine

      December 23, 2024

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Just Salad – Hudson Square

      November 13, 2024

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Coda Kitchen & Bar

      July 29, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Sweet T’s Southern Eatery – Montclair

      July 24, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Tinga Fresh Mexican & BBQ

      July 23, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Falafel Hut

      July 12, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Seoul Bistro

      July 4, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Ralph’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant

      June 27, 2025

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard: Gone Before Their…

      August 9, 2022

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      The Press Box Restaurant & Pub

      August 3, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Natureworks – Midtown

      May 6, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      The National Bar & Dining Rooms

      April 10, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Hillstone – Midtown

      March 5, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Connolly’s Pub & Restaurant – 5th Ave.

      February 12, 2021

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard: Gone Before Their…

      July 21, 2024

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Scala del Nonna

      February 15, 2023

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Diesel & Duke – Montclair

      January 30, 2023

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Maple Leaf Diner

      February 10, 2022

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Ruthie’s Bar-B-Q & Pizza

      September 14, 2021

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Junior’s Cheesesteaks & Shakes

      December 21, 2020

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