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| n/a by www.blender.com |
It's done two good things for the Stills: sharpened their songwriting and returned them after a dull Album No. 2. to the crystalline guitar minimalism of their debut. [Sep 2008, p.84] |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
The hooks and charm of their epic debut, Logic Will Break Your Heart, were decidedly missing from their 2006 sophomore effort, Without Feathers, but Oceans Will Rise marks a partial return to form for the Montreal quartet. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
Three albums in, the Stills still sound ambitiously confused. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Oceans Will Rise is not a bad album, but it is very much the sound of a band still trying to figure out who they are--and in fairness, they have lost and gained a member since their first record. But three albums into a career, they should have a better idea than this. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
In the end Oceans Will Rise strikes the listener as solid, appropriate, but not really that exciting |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
On their appropriately (and doomily) titled third album, Oceans Will Rise, Montreal band The Stills address the end of the world in the only way they know how--with marginally catchy, heart-on-sleeve ballads that never hook up with their aspirations. |
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| n/a by www.urb.com |
Its a welcome return to vintage Stills, after an attempt at stylistic departure (2006s With Feathers) was met with lukewarm critical reception. |
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