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The five-year void since their last album, Ancient Melodies of the Future, has left Doug Martsch and Built to Spill retooled, refreshed, and, uh, rebuilt. Check out their excellent new song, "Goin' Against Your Mind", currently streaming on the BTS MySpace page, and raise your eyeglasses in jubilation. Fellow nerds, Built to Spill is back.

After an excruciatingly long wait, details have finally emerged regarding the band's new album, You in Reverse. Due April 11 on Warner Bros. (can't believe they haven't been dropped!), the record was self-produced by the band, and made without the input of longtime producer Phil Ek.

In an interview with Billboard last year, Martsch said, "We just wanted to try something new to spark us to do something different." The result, evidently, is the most collaborative expression in the band's fourteen-year history.

Says the band's MySpace page, "To a large extent, each musician wrote his own parts. Half of the finished material incorporates segments the band wrote together during jam sessions...Rather than Doug's former reliance on extensive overdubs, the group tried to capture loose and live moments, letting each individual musician's talents be more accurately represented. Instead of a broad, atmospheric sweep, this record sounds natural. It resonates with relationships, the way the band as a whole responds to music and to each other."

On You in Reverse (which, now that we think of it, is "ouY"), BTS return with the core lineup of Martsch, bassist Brett Nelson, and drummer Scott Plouf augmented by touring guitarist Jim Roth, formerly of the Delusions, and frequent contributor Brett Netson (not to be confused with Brett Nelson). Quasi's Sam Coomes also puts in some keyboard work on the album.

Perfect from now on:

01 Goin' Against Your Mind
02 Traces
03 Liar
04 Saturday
05 Wherever You Go
06 Conventional Wisdom
07 Gone
08 Mess With Time
09 Just a Habit
10 The Wait

As of right now, the only shows Built to Spill have scheduled are a pair of dates at Chicago's Metro on April 14 and 15. But we assume an album-supporting tour will be announced soon.