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The Stills: Without Feathers
Interview, June, 2006 by Stephen Mooallem
(Vice)
If someone were to erect an amusement park for pasty-faced rock bands, then the most popular attraction would be the Ian Curtis Roller Coaster of Doom. Swirling, majestic, and elegantly glum, it would be conveniently located near the Robert Smith Bumper Cars and the Morrissey Teacup Carousel for easy, stress-free brooding. The Stills' 2003 debut, Logic Will Break Your Heart, was practically dripping with its post-punk influences. But with its deconstructed love songs, fractured melodies, and slow-burning tempos, Without Feathers sounds as if the Montreal quintet has been taken apart and put back together inside out, resulting in a follow-up that's not so much a great leap forward as it is a topsy-turvy redesign. Where the Stills are going with this, only they know--but at least it's not in circles.
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