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It seems that everyone is still expecting The Stills to revert to the form they shows on their debut album Logic Will Break Your Heart, yet here we are two albums past and they have yet to show anything that even remotely compares to the power of that initial album. Instead we get an "evolving" Stills and I honestly don't know where they are evolving to. Is it their idea to evolve into a stale sound indie rock band? Or do they want to really push the envelope a bit here and there? The answer through most of Oceans Will Rise is that they are growing into a stale indie rock band. Some people are saying that this fuses aspects of the first two albums together, and in a sense it does, but for the most part it's a very bland album with just a handful of songs to get really hyped about. I don't know about you but I'm going to stick to my copy of Logic... and give anything new a trial run to see if they remember how to do something similar to that.The Stills - "Snow in California"
The Stills - "Being Here"
One of the higlights of the debacle that was the Pitchfork Music Fest was Icy Demons' live performance. They wowed me with their abilities, their thumping bass lines, and their irresistable rhythms, but for some reason very little of that performance comes off on the record. Instead we spend most of our time with a toned down version of Gnarls Barkley, very soulful, and still solid bass lines, but nothing nearly as powerful or as percussive as their live show was. Still, I think the real problem here is that the live show was just too damn good to be lived up to with a recorded effort just like Pow Pow's other band Man Man is much better live then on record. It's a solid album for sure, but it's just not as solid as their live performance was. Take that as a compliment guys because I do believe you are a very good band and I like the album enough to listen to it on a fairly regular basis.Icy Demons - "1850"
Icy Demons - "Spywatchers"
Friday, August 15th:
Dirty Projectors - "Six Pack"
White Williams - "Route to Palm"
Fiasco - "Oh, You Horny Monster"
Bodies of Water - "Only You"
Port O'Brien - "Stuck On A Boat"
Brilliant Sweaters - "Sexy Genius"
Saturday, August 16th:
Battles - "Bad Trails"
Black Dice - "Bottom Feeder"
Jana Hunter - "Babies"
Sunday, August 17th:
Aesop Rock - "Keep Off the Lawn"
Panther - "Decision, Decision"
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - "Something's Changed"
Oxford Collapse - "Electric Air"
1 comments:
i'm loving the stills record. snakecharming the masses?? awesome. lots of great tunes on there.
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