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The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
| Blender | | In the Stills’ version of apocalypse, the moon turns red, the seas flood and “the Mayan calendar ends,” but guitars still sparkle with celestial clarity. On the Montreal quintet’s third album—a heartsick, skinny-jeans alternate soundtrack to An Inconvenient Truth—singer Tim Fletcher certainly drives home the point that ecological disaster is very, very bad (“No one left here to show me how I died,” he howls with Bono-esque melodrama). But it’s done two good things for the Stills: sharpened their songwriting and returned them, after a dull Album No. 2, to the crystalline guitar minimalism of their debut....full text |
| | Allmusic | | The commercial highlight of the Stills' third album is "Being Here," an uplifting piece of U2-inspired rock that finds a compromise between the band's post-rock beginnings and the dusty Technicolor strains of Without Feathers. Tim Fletcher's vocals are the stuff of stadium rock shows -- all high notes, reverb, and crackling passion -- and guitarist Dave Hamelin plays descending riffs like the Edge's hipster doppelganger. Nothing else on Oceans Will Rise matches that sort of grandeur, but the band still sounds energized and confident throughout these 12 tracks. Appropriately, this is the first time the Stills have returned with their lineup intact -- co-founder Greg Paquet quit in 2005 to finish college, drummer Julien Blais and keyboardist Liam O'Neil joined the group soon after, and former drummer Dave Hamelin took up Paquet's vacant spot on lead guitar....full text |
| | Popmatters | | On their third album, Montreal’s the Stills sound supremely confident. Polished by slickly professional production, their songs are just the right length and build into effective (if predictable) crescendos from jittery, propulsive verses. They incorporate small, inventive sounds at the periphery of the sound, which lends the otherwise dense texture a certain light-footedness (check out the clapping percussive effect on “Snakecharming the Masses”). And their command of the texture of the alternate rock song is beyond reproach. Over the top of it all, the two vocalists Tim Fletcher and Dave Hamelin (who’s also the main songwriter) broadcast smooth, Chris Martin-esque lines. It combines to create a picture of a band that’s super competent, whose craft is truly impressive – but who still somehow fails to really impress....full text |
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