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Logic Will Break Your Heart by: Stills

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Rating: - This is the next big band to watch out for!

This album shows every sign that this band will develop into an international band of great repute in the same way that Radiohead have. Their sound is unique but takes some of its best influences from bands that have come up with songs of melancholic grit and beauty but with a fiery rock background that is always ready to emerge. It's one of those albums that gets better and better, the more you listen to it. If you liked the Cure, you will like these guys, but if you didn't, you'll probably like them anyway, as they go several steps further on in their musicality. A great Album, buy it!

Rating: - Solid debut album

The Stills create a sound that hovers in a strangely natural way between the Smiths and the Strokes - two bands a million miles apart. The debut album 'Logic Will Break Your Heart' offers some absolutely brilliant tracks, enforced so successfully by the beautiful guitar backing from Greg Paquet - Tim Fletcher's voice is nothing special, and if anything a little too depressive, but it complements the general melody well enough and is perfectly inoffensive.

The opener, "Lola Stars and Stripes", is a beatuiful song, highlighting the lack of change in the world since the start of the cold war and impending threat on the world today, while effortlessly blending this with a love song to their muse figure, Lola. And this gives the listener an idea of what to expect - a politically fuelled mix of songs that don't spell it out and work on both the level of boy-girl or Iraq war. "Changes are no Good" is the highlight of the album, again suggsting that political change never comes, while cleverly working this into the idea of personal change. The songs ring true on several different levels and work brilliantly even if you don't listen to the lyrics (although the album is inhibited by a few of the elss memorable tracks). Overall, The Stills offer a huge amount of promise for the future, and while 'Logic Will Break Your Heart' will hardly be their piece de ressistance it's possible to see that from this beginning massive things are possible.

Rating: - Montreal winter magic!

Chiming guitars,melodic fluid basslines and some very jagged vocals make for the best album of the New Year so far...its official.
Nothing here hasnt been done before but this is a very NOW record..a noughties catalogue of despair and unrest.The uplifting melodies of some songs do not jar against the sharper edges of others, there is very little filler and a lot of variety.
If you loved the Interpol classic "Turn On The Bright Lights" and "RocknRoll" by Ryan Adams you'll love this.

Sublime!

Rating: - Perfectly good enough for now

“Love and death are always on my mind,” announces Tim Fletcher, erstwhile frontman/guitarist of Montreal’s The Stills. Probably not the best man to spend an evening in the pub with, then. But this Canadian four-piece’s approach to the genre probably best labelled “post-modern angst rock” (yes, I just invented this genre) is refreshing. For a start, it sounds like they laid a layer of effects on the drumkit so that the snare and bass drum become less like percussion instruments and more like harbingers of intergalactic destruction. Well, OK, perhaps not quite that loud, but the drums thunder each song along to its conclusion. It’s a neat trick.

They wear their influences on their sleeve at times, with nods to Wire and early U2 in the guitar lines (Lola Stars And Stripes), and the waves of guitars piled on top of each other suggest a working knowledge of My Bloody Valentine. The only flaws that this reviewer could spot are a reliance to rely on one mid-paced tempo in the same way Travis used one speed to record 'The Man Who', and some worryingly funny lyrics that I suspect were meant to be meaningful. “She said she was a virgin, and I asked her which version” is the baffling retort on Alison Krausse, the extra ‘e’ presumably added to avoid a lawsuit from one of Nashville’s finest. All in all though, a record with a lot about it to like. Hook-laden, fizzy and energetic, this is a debut album of real promise.

Rating: - Get Carried Away

A treat for fans of repeat listens. There's something seedy yet hopeful about all of this. 'Still In Love Song' was the best song of 2003; 'Changes Are No Good' may be the best of 2004. If you like music that swoops about a bit, and then sweeps along, and then stops, and then grabs you as it leaps up and you suddenly realise that you're not quite where you thought you were, then I'm delighted for you. This album is probably for you.

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