Album Review

The Stills – Destroyer

• 4th Jun 2007

This upbeat tune with stomping bass and busty brass brings a smile to the face…until you listen intently to the lyrics as you are bobbing about thinking of happy thoughts and sunny days, only to hear…“only when your dead, I’ll make you mine”.

It’s like the soundtrack to a Busby Berkley slasher film with lead vocalist Dave Hamelin singing with a blood spattered grin. Think Belle-and-Sebastian but with a twisted, sinister vocal. Still makes you smile though.