Debut studio album from Boise, Idaho's Built To Spill. Ultimate Alternative Wavers was originally recorded in 1993 and showed the band still finding their footing on the uneven seas of indie rock. The feeling throughout the record is loose and free flowing with messy guitars, but a clearly focused vision. Dinosaur Jr, Pavement and Sonic Youth influences pop up here and there, but Doug Martsch and Co. carved out their own place with this release. Ten tracks in all. Released by Modern Classics Recordings on double vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with a printed insert.

• double vinyl pressing
• gatefold sleeve
• printed insert
• music label: Modern Classics Recordings 2014

reviewed by slack mansassus 01/2017