associated_acts article_title birth_date instrument background genre origin name
farm , the suffocation keep , the electronic anthology project , days sick wish , butterfly train , built to spill brett nelson
 1969 vocals , guitar , bass , keyboards solo_singer indie rock boise , idaho , united states brett nelson
brett nelson

brett nelson -lrb- born 1969 -rrb- is an american multi-instrumentalist , singer and songwriter best known as the former bassist for the indie rock band built to spill .
in high school , nelson played in a band called farm days along with doug martsch and andy capps .
nelson 's next band , butterfly train , released two albums on up records , in 1994 and 1996 , before breaking up -lrb- andy capps was drummer for the latter album -rrb- .
in 1994 , nelson and andy capps joined martsch 's built to spill .
nelson has appeared on every album except the debut , `` ultimate alternative wavers '' and `` untethered moon '' .
nelson sings and plays guitar and keyboards for the suffocation keep , which released its debut album `` john hughes was never so wrong '' in 2002 .
the band completed a second album in 2004 , `` a few minor modifications of the stars '' .
the album was never released ; however , the band did make it available for free download .
nelson currently lives in boise , idaho .
he sometimes calls himself `` brett not netson '' or `` brelson '' to distinguish himself from built to spill bandmate brett netson .
in november 2009 , nelson re-recorded seven built to spill songs `` synthesizer/drum machine only '' with bandmate doug martsch re-singing the songs and released it as an e.p. titled the electronic anthology project in july 2010 .
the new edition of the electronic anthology project takes nine songs from dinosaur jr. with new vocals by j mascis .
it was released on record store day , april 21 , 2012 , in a limited edition of 500 purple vinyl copies -lrb- with digital , cd and standard vinyl to follow -rrb- .
brett nelson departed from built to spill along with then-drummer scott plouf in 2012 , after 18 years with the band .
the reasons behind the decision are said to be benevolent .
nelson was replaced by jason alberti and scott plouf by steve gere .
built to spill promptly began touring again in early 2013 .
