The Stills

The Stills just bore scant similarities to Interpol, but like those suit-wearing New Yorkers, the Stills launched their career using a stately post-punk sound inspired by famous brands Echo & the Bunnymen and Pleasure Department. Having known each other since the age group of 12, the band’s founding users — vocalist Tim Fletcher, drummer Dave Hamelin, guitarist Greg Paquet, and bassist Oliver Crowe — performed in various rings before developing the Stills in 2000. 2 yrs later, they briefly left their indigenous Montreal for any two-month stay static in NEW YORK, where they documented songs having a four-track recorder and pursued an archive deal. An present from Vice Recordings adopted prior to the year’s end; nevertheless, joint shows using the Music, the Rapture, the Roads, as well as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs had been what cemented the Stills a short-term spot one of the city’s ever-changing indie rock and roll picture. The Rememberese EP made an appearance in June 2003, and stateside times with Interpol adopted that fall. Reasoning Will Break Your Center designated the Stills’ full-length debut in Oct, and the music group spent period touring the U.K. and THE UNITED STATES before heading in to the studio room to record another album in past due 2004. Founding member Greg Paquet announced his departure from your lineup the next yr, and drummer Dave Hamelin taken care of immediately the switch by switching tasks and filling up Paquet’s i’m all over this acoustic guitar. Touring keyboardist Liam O’Neil and Ocean Ray drummer Colin Brooks had been also put into the lineup. The causing Without Feathers, released in 2006, was something of the departure for the group, relying much less on new influx and post-punk and much more on rootsy, ’70s heartland rock and roll (Hamelin also became the band’s co-frontman, writing vocal responsibilities with Fletcher). 2008’s Oceans Can Rise noticed the Stills extending their boundaries even more, this time around incorporating sonic experimentalism and uplifting, anthemic rock and roll to their sound. The progression stopped there, nevertheless, with the music group announcing its decision to split on Apr 15, 2011.