The Stills are now happier bunch of guys. Gone are the intense, moody songs of their first album (the criminally underrated ‘Logic Will Break Your Heart’). In place are upbeat, alt-country tunes. More Fleetwood Mac than Joy Division. And they totally look the part now, if those new promo pictures are anything to go by. It’s not often you see a band in flannel and tweed these days.
I was worried all these changes would mean that they’ll lose their lush sound, so rich in the first album. But fortunately not, as you can hear in this:
The Stills – Baby Blues (duet with Emily Haines from Metric!)
According to Access online:
“The record’s first single, ‘Destroyer’, a song Hamelin wrote on the road. Starting off with a simple drum beat and poppy piano riffs, the other instruments slowly find their way on to the track alongside Hamelin’s crooning vocals until the song builds into a beautiful, intense, sweeping and melodic epic that sounds a bit like Jellyfish if they had written a ’50s song in the ’70s.”
Happy. Poppy. Much like the song “In The Beginning”, available for download at their Myspace page.
Sam Roberts and Jason Collett (from the band Broken Social Scene) will be featured on the track “Oh Shoplifter”.
The Stills – Still In Love (from ‘Logic Will Break Your Heart’)
‘Without Feathers’ is out in the USA on May 9! Pre-order here
