The Stills 'Logic Will Break Your Heart' (679), Released 23/02/04

Montreal isn't famous for being a particularly noteworthy North American musical outpost, but all that could swiftly change with The Stills 'Logic Will Break' Your Heart'.  Recorded over a frantic two month period in a Brooklyn loft apartment, both the location and pressing circumstances have influenced this sweeping epic of an album that rings absolutely true as one mans romantic battle (submission?) against the barriers that life puts up at every turn.

Take 'Changes are No Good', where Tim Fletcher's emotive vocals brazenly reflect that restlessness set to a hook laden, shimmering, dark n' dreamy 80's sound that wouldn't sound out of place on Interpol's 'Turn on The Bright Lights'.  But that's not to say that it's all introspective doom and gloom here.  'Still in Love Song', with it's bass line lifted straight from Blondie's 'Atomic', fizz's along like its off to dance the night away with Franz Ferdinand and The Strokes, and coming close to the albums moving 'Yesterday Never Tomorrow', shines through as a cautious note of optimism amidst the gloom.  An early contender for album of the year, The Stills could be one Coldplay support slot away from superstardom.