The Stills - 'Lola Stars & Stripes' (679)
2/5
By: Austin Louis Ray
Hype, you foul, foul temptress. You flutter about with your arrogantly out-of-nowhere attitude, raising our spirits and whetting out palettes for each new musical delight you have waiting in store, claiming it to be the true 'next big thing'. How dare you pull such treachery again and again.
Sure, you deliver sometimes. The Strokes have proven to be the real deal, producing two solid, musically tight albums. Dizzee Rascal is an impressive MC - even if he could use a few more years under his belt to up that delivery and creativity to a razor-sharpened precision edge. But what of the others? So many others. There's no need to go into them all now; you know you've pulled the wool over our eyes more than once in the past. Well, we're not going to stand for it.
This brings us to 'Lola Stars and Stripes', the latest from endorsed scene-mongers, The Stills. And The Stills have better to offer than this. Tim Fletcher's vocals are reduced to a wimpier version of themselves, the flailing guitars fail to offer much of anything monumental and the rest of the 80s diatribe falls into lacklustre line. These boys are young, luckily, and do have better material. They'll bounce back.
In the meantime, though... Hyperbole, consider yourself warned. We won't be so nice next time.
Artists in this article: The Stills
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