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ARTIST: The Stills<br />
TITLE: Oceans Will Rise<br />
LABEL: Arts And Crafts<br />
GENRE: Rock<br />
BITRATE: 209kbps avg<br />
PLAYTIME: 0h 48m total<br />
RELEASE DATE: 2008-08-18<br />
RIP DATE: 2008-08-20<br />
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Track List<br />
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1. Don't Talk Down 4:08<br />
2. Snow In California 3:52<br />
3. Snakecharming The Masses 4:21<br />
4. Being Here 3:29<br />
5. Everything I Build 3:46<br />
6. Panic 3:43<br />
7. Eastern Europe 3:08<br />
8. Hands On Fire 4:57<br />
9. Dinosaurs 3:45<br />
10. I'm With You 3:22<br />
11. Rooibos/Palm Wine Drinkard 5:43<br />
12. Statue Of Sirens 4:02<br />
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Oceans Will Rise is the third album by Montreal band The Stills. In late 2007,<br />
Toronto, Canada-based record label Arts & Crafts signed the band to a worldwide<br />
recording deal. Once again working with producer Gus van Go, The Stills' new<br />
material, beginning with the anthemic lead single, "Being Here," conveys a<br />
rejuvenated, reinvigorated sense of being. According to vocalist Tim Fletcher,<br />
the group felt "a raw energy of inspiration" during the new album's recording<br />
efforts that was absent in previous sessions. "The Stills are back back back!" -<br />
NME.com<br />
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Montreal's the Stills are nothing like Interpol, but like those New York City<br />
suit-wearing hipsters, the Stills launched their career with a stately post-punk<br />
sound inspired by the likes of Echo & the Bunnymen and Joy Division. Having<br />
known one another since the age of 12, vocalist Tim Fletcher, drummer Dave<br />
Hamelin, guitarist Greg Paquet, and bassist Oliver Crowe played in various bands<br />
before forming the Stills in 2000. These art school students temporarily left<br />
their beloved Canada for a two-month stay in N.Y.C. to design a lush, swarthy<br />
pop style with the help of a four-track recorder. A deal with Vice followed<br />
before the year's end; however, joint shows with the Music, the Rapture, the<br />
Streets, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were what cemented the Stills a dominating spot<br />
among the ever-changing rock scene.<br />
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The Rememberese EP appeared in June 2003, while stateside dates with Interpol<br />
followed that fall. Logic Will Break Your Heart marked The Stills' full-length<br />
debut in October, and the band spent time touring the U.K. and North America<br />
before heading into the studio to record a second album in late 2004. Founding<br />
member Greg Paquet announced his departure from the lineup the following year,<br />
and drummer Dave Hamelin responded to the change by switching roles and filling<br />
Paquet's spot on guitar. Touring keyboardist Liam O'Neil and Sea Ray drummer<br />
Colin Brooks were also added to the lineup. The resulting Without Feathers,<br />
released in 2006, was something of a departure for the group, relying less on<br />
new wave and post-punk and more on rootsy, '70s heartland rock (Hamelin also<br />
became the band's co-frontman, sharing vocal duties with Fletcher). 2008's<br />
Oceans Will Rise saw the Stills stretching their boundaries even further, this<br />
time incorporating sonic experimentalism and uplifting, anthemic rock.<br />
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