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First Reactions: The Stills' new album, Oceans Will Rise

sean by Sean Adams [Edit this content] ▾ 13 comments 15:48 June 3rd, 2008

DiS is very much still in love with Canadian heart-strokers The Stills and is very excited to have had a sneaky listen to their new album.

On first impressions Oceans Will Rise (we believe the above is the artwork), their forthcoming third album and first for Arts & Crafts, is perplexingly both groovier and darker than previous records. Imagine kids partying in a room with blood splattered walls. There're some beautiful drones, which find themselves stumbling somewhere between The Shins’ last record, Death Cab for Cutie's recent single 'I Will Possess Your Heart', and all the classic records which inspired pair of 'em. There're a few corking epic singles on here, too.

We probably shouldn't even be writing about this so we'll let the band explain. This is what they posted to MySpace...

"There is so precious little time left before the inevitable occurs, and we are so close, so close, so close now!

We have been scraping and gouging frantic, ripping through thick black unbelievable earth, deep below the surface, crazy for daylight, crazy to reach the top. We are sick and we are thin, but we are coming back to you, like some desperate bodiless claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas on this, the most important mission.

Our new album is called Oceans Will Rise, and it will be released on August 19 on Arts & Crafts.

It is about the world we have seen and been through in the past several years, and all the beautiful, painful, wasted, joyful, smeared-sky, sick blissful wandering it has led us on, on the trail of some prey, on the brink of something huge, tiny and helpless, all you can feel is the whole universe shaking to its limit just that tiny bit more every split-split trillisecond, you can almost hear it happening in tiny detail if you hold your breath in long enough, little cracks and ancient-glacier-ice-whining.

We leave you with two songs to tide you over for now until the full album is released. ‘Being Here’ will be the first single from the album, with an accompanying video, to be fully released later in June. We hope you enjoy these.

We are nothing without the people who have shown us the greatest love and kindness ever known and shown on this earth, and that - you - is who this album was made for and inspired by. So until August 19, know that this is what we hope you can hold onto. For now.

Wishing you happiness and much love,
The Stills"

Here's a rather odd video from YouTube of the track 'Snakcharming the Masses':

Download 'Being Here' from RCRDLBL.com.

DiScuss: First thoughts on the two new tracks?

The Stills

Snakecharming

is such a tune, being here is very U2...

jon_davies01 | 3 Jun '08, 16:11 | X | Reply

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this is great. christ i'm going to be skint this month. just bought vinyl copies of memory drawings by the drift and a bunch of mono lp's. a guess the cat can go without eating for a while

calla | 3 Jun '08, 16:20 | X | Reply

yeah the second record was really crud

i loved their first album so much - i still listen to it quite often. i'll probably by this in hope of it being just half as good

TimmyL @JayPe | 3 Jun '08, 16:44 | X | Reply

well

you can wait, not out 'til august

sean @calla | 3 Jun '08, 16:45 | X | Reply

good to see them back !

lyle | 3 Jun '08, 17:07 | X | Reply

First album - masterpiece

Second album - Underrated and unfairly maligned

This news has shocked me as I didn't even know they were going to release an album this year, thus I am so :D right now. Can't wait to hear it.

Acquiescence @lyle | 3 Jun '08, 17:33 | X | Reply

yeah

second album was really good. Can't understand why so many people seem to hate it.

lyle @Acquiescence | 3 Jun '08, 19:59 | X | Reply

Because they had a really good thing

going with their first album and threw it away with some weird country-dominated sound with the second. I'll still look out for the new one though.

malick @lyle | 3 Jun '08, 22:18 | X | Reply

both are good, but the first

is excellent, to me, anyway. Darker sounds good to me - there's 4 songs on Myspace which are quite varied, so it sounds like a continuation from Without Feathers in that respect. Brilliant band, can't wait.

Andy @lyle | 3 Jun '08, 23:32 | X | Reply

oh dear..

am i the only one to find these new songs pretty dreadful. the wonderful thing about logic will break your heart was that it was so understated and mysterious, but everything they've done since is sort of soulless and crass.

oh well..

mozzarella_sweaters | 4 Jun '08, 00:30 | X | Reply

no you;re not

b
Being Here is horrible - sounds like an editors song or something. snakecharming is ok though.

TimmyL @mozzarella_sweaters | 5 Jun '08, 09:33 | X | Reply

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