''Built to Spill Caustic Resin'' is a

split EP A split album (or split) is a music album that includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There are also singles and EPs of the same variety, which are often called "split singles" and "split EPs" respectively. Split albums differ from "var ...

released by

indie rock Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the mu ...

bands Built to Spill and

Caustic Resin Caustic Resin is an American indie rock band from Boise, Idaho consisting of Brett Netson on guitar and vocals, Tom Romich Jr. on bass guitar, and James Dillion or Pat Perkins on drums. Biography Caustic Resin formed in Boise, Idaho in 1988, the ...

. The EP was a collaboration between the bands. The album attributes songwriting credits for the first two tracks to Built to Spill, the third to Caustic Resin and the last to Tae Won Yu from his time in the band

Kicking Giant Rachel Carns (born August 13, 1969) is an American musician, composer, artist and performer living in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Raised in small-town Wisconsin, she went on to study painting and drawing at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Sci ...

. Built to Spill's Brett Netson is listed as performing guitar and vocals on Caustic Resin's track "Shit Brown Eyes", while Caustic Resin's Todd Dunnigan is listed as playing organ on "When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough" and Moog on "One Thing", both songs by Built to Spill. The album was originally released with a cover featuring a photo of newly hatched fish larva and eggs, which had been found in a trash can. The cover photograph was changed on later issues, after the original photograph's owner complained. The album is

Up Records Up Records was a Seattle based independent record label founded in 1994 by Chris Takino and Rich Jensen. Some of the label's best known artists were 764-Hero, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Quasi and Tad. Chris Takino died of leukemia in 2000 ...

release UP018.

Track listing

# "When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough" – 9:17 # "One Thing" – 5:09 # "Shit Brown Eyes" – 3:28 # "She's Real" – 8:13

Personnel

* James Dillion - drums (Caustic Resin) *

Doug Martsch Doug Martsch (born September 16, 1969) is an American singer and musician. He is best known for his distinctive vocals and guitar playing style in the band Built to Spill. Career Martsch's first band was Farm Days, with Andy Capps and Brett Nels ...

- vocals and guitar (Built to Spill) * Tom Romich - bass (Caustic Resin) * Brett Netson - vocals and guitar (Caustic Resin/Built to Spill) The track "Shit Brown Eyes" was engineered by Todd Dunnigan, and the rest were engineered by

Phil Ek Phil Ek is an American record producer, engineer and mixer. Ek began his career in Seattle, Washington in the early 1990s recording live sound in clubs. He then moved into studio recording, recording small projects and demos for local bands. Aroun ...

.''Built to Spill Caustic Resin'' liner notes

References

Built to Spill albums Caustic Resin albums 1995 collaborative albums 1995 EPs {{1990s-indie-rock-album-stub