Logic Will Break Your Heart

The Stills | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Vice / Atlantic
• ASIN: B0000D9PI4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,311 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stills do it again, December 31, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Logic Will Break Your Heart (Audio CD)

The stills first audio release - Rememberese - Was a great begginer EP. Although it was 50% Still in Love Song, who doesn't want more of it? It's catchy riff by Oliver Crowe, the bass player, and true-to-life lyrics by Tim Fletcher, pounding drummer Dave Hamlin keeps this talented group together. The opening song, Lola Stars and Stripes, shows why they are such a great band. Oliver keeps his riffs simple, but great. Greg Pauquet, lead guitarest, plays only when nessecary, but when he does, it is with charm. Of Montreal, their home-town ballad, shows the best way to describe their music - bittersweet. Gender Bombs shows why they have two guitarests. Both talented, they blend together to sound wonderful - in a dark song.

If you haven't figuired it out, I am a huge stills fan, have have been since my dad played me Still in Love Song. This is great music by a bunch of great guys. I talk to them through e-mail, and they are great! Just today Oliver even sent me some Bass stuff for me to play :) I hope you give your ears a treat and buy this album.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Awesome CD from a Canadian Band (finally)., March 18, 2004

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"qrillon" (Edmonton, AB, CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logic Will Break Your Heart (Audio CD)

The Stills are a great band with a sound that is similar to other NYC garage rock bands, but they still have their own sound. A little bit of New Wave, 80's and Rock BEAUTIFULLY meshed into this album. Rarely do i find a CD with more than 5 songs that i like. This album doesn't need any skipping, throw it on random and ENJOY! The best songs in my opinion, with the best songs first, are "Allison Krauss" (*****), and then "Still In Love", but very close to that is "Of Montreal", "Gender Bombs", "Lola Stars and Stripes", "Yesterday not Tomorrow" oh hell, the whole CD is good. In comparison to Interpol...the Stills vocals are better, and their backing music is on par with Interpol as well. I've caught them at a concert too, and boy, they are an act. If i had a straight jacket on in the concert, no doubt i would've busted through it, headbanging after the first song. Simply put, they are A GREAT BAND, and this great band is better than 90% of the bands that have a video on rotation on music channels.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why can't this last forever?, August 7, 2006

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A.L.V. "geezowhiz" (from your friendly neighborhood 500) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logic Will Break Your Heart (Audio CD)

First of all, to the reviewer who compared The Stills to The Shins: What? They aren't in any way similar enough to be compared except for the `The' in their names. The Shins are amazing in their own right, but moving on...

It's hard to believe that this is The Stills debut album. Most bands would be lucky to EVER have an album this good in their collection, but right off the bat? Damn. Logic Will Break Your Heart is one of those rare masterpieces of modern alternative rock that actually almost defines the genre. Some may think that Interpol has done it better or maybe they did it first, but to tell you the truth, I don't really know or care. The Stills deserve the credit for an astonishing, flawless album of their own without the comparisons.

Logic starts out with a bang. "Lola Stars and Stripes" comes on and knocks the indifferent stare right off your face with powerful cymbal-driven percussion and a guitar riff that sounds like climbing a really steep flight of stairs (Nice analogy, right? Hey, I never said I was an instrument buff). With timely and timeless lyrics that are equally apathetic as well as heartbreakingly honest, "Lola" manages to stray far enough away from a political commentary to actually say something genuine about humanity.

There is no doubt that "Lola" is a showstopper, but she never puts the rest of the album to shame. As many of the reviewers here have said, this is a no-skip album with thankfully no fillers. I hate fillers. "Gender Bombs" is the perfect song to be second; in some ways it rivals "Lola" as the best song on the album. It is my personal favorite; about 25 seconds in to the song, when the lead guitar kicks in, I'm instantly hooked. By the end, I find myself either muttering, `massive suiciiiiide...' or `the girl will school you' continuously until someone tells me to shut up or calls a suicide hotline...whatever comes first.

"Of Montreal" combines some of the musical elements of "Lola" and "Gender Bombs", but is a plaintive, intense song with heavy reliance on Tim Fletcher's anguished-sounding moans and cries. If you can't decide whether you love or hate his voice, this song might make the decision for you. "Allison Krausse" fades in quietly and then builds with a more distorted vocal and some killer guitar that meshes perfectly with Fletcher's brooding voice. Listen to "Animals & Insects" and the simple words `Oh my god' will somehow encompass every last feeling of inertia and nothingness you've ever felt.

The Stills have managed to channel apathy and angst into music that is not cliché or whiny. It remains hopeful instead of defeatist, multifaceted instead of one-dimensional, and enduring rather than tiresome after repeated listens. The Stills seem like they don't try to be profound, but it just happens accidentally. Or does it? Their highly divisive, drastically different second album, Without Feathers, questions that very notion. Stroke of genuis or the first signs of mental instability? I know what I think, but I'll let you be the judge on that one.

Anyway, Logic Will Break Your Heart is a good one. Trust me, whatever led you to this album, whether it was linked to another CD or someone recommended it, it happened for a good reason. You need to own this one.