The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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When the Stills first set foot onstage, you expect them to be a Strokes cover band -- first there's the name, and then there's the fact that each Still has the exact same haircut as his corresponding Stroke. But the music is a different breed of New Wave cool -- from a band of Montreal expatriates residing in New York. The Stills' excellent debut album, Logic Will Break Your Heart, is a stunner, a rush of shoegazer guitars and suave lover-boy angst. They expand on the Eighties guitar-synth chemistry of bands such as the Cure or the Comsat Angels for a sound that could pass for the lost New Order album between Power, Corruption and Lies and Low-life. The Stills bemoan the morbid agonies of young love with absolutely no pretense that they're not just trying to impress hot indie-rock girls, and their jive is so transparent it just makes the music sexier by removing any trace of pomposity. In other words, the Stills make you want to dance, dance, dance to the radio.

ROB SHEFFIELD
(RS 935, November 13, 2003)