| · Montreal four-piece make the most of post-punk on their charming debut.
The driving guitar assault of "Lola Stars and Stripes," the lead off track from Logic Will Break Your Heart is quite an attention getter. The song soon degenerates into a standard loud-quiet-loud endeavour, but before long the album shifts gears into "Gender Bombs," which sounds like surprisingly hybrid Pedro The Lion and The Smiths.
The album proves to be full of bass-anchored mid-tempo rockers, accented by some fine guitar-noodling on the part of Greg Paquet. However, it’s the back-to-back brilliance of "Let’s Roll" and "Allison Kraus" that make the album. A well-steeped aching melancholy gives way to three minutes of near perfection.
One could easily cite a list of all the bands that The Stills evoke on this album but in the end they find a way to make their influences their own. By the time the album closes down with the synth-accented "Yesterday Never Tomorrow," you will be ready to start it all over again.
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