“The Plan” by Built To Spill

"The Plan" comes from Keep It Like a Secret, Built to Spill's fourth album and their second on Warner Bros., the record where Doug Martsch, burned out from building the sprawling epics of Perfect from Now On, set out to write tighter, shorter songs. Martsch is credited with the words and music, with Brett Nelson and Scott Plouf sharing the writing credit, and he produced it with Phil Ek.

The album was built the patient way. Much of it came out of a week of marathon jams in Boise, some running up to five hours, with Martsch working a foot pedal that set a tape machine rolling so he could later sift the tapes for keepers. Ek cut the basic tracks at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington, in November 1997, and the overdubs were done in Seattle the following year.

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