There's Nothing Wrong With Love

NME - 7 (out of 10) - "...the work of a band who've parked their guitars between Pavement and Flaming Lips, and added their own jangly bits....The feel is SGT. PEPPER warmth meets flannel rock basics....As with Guided By Voices, BTS put the essential into quintessential Yank rock..." Melody Maker - "...There's a really unsettling painting called `Christina's World' by Andrew Wyeth, where a girl lies in a cornfield limply staring at a few wooden buildings. In all that space there's a damaging claustrophobia and no matter how bouncy BTS get, they're still tainted with this strange, arid Americana..." Melody Maker - 5 stars out of 5 - "One of the best American guitar records of the '90s..." New York Times - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "...Jagged layers of guitar, a piecemeal approach to pop music and sharp, introspective lyrics....[NOTHING WRONG WITH LOVE] shined like a sequin on the dirty shirt of indie-rock." Spin - Ranked #64 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Pitchfork - "[I]t captures a truly original songwriting voice at the exact moment he realized what he had to offer. It's the album as snow globe, a small place where interconnected stories happen and you can get a different perspective on them depending on your vantage point."

Beneath the wacky guitar fooling and somewhat nasal vocals, Built to Spill write great love songs, whether its bouncy pop or fragile melodies. Strings are used to good effect on three songs, and vocal harmonies make this disc an all-around winner. ~ John Bush|