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Hold Steady
Stay Positive: Bonus Tracks: Ltd
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Release date: 14-07-2008
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Catalogue Number: RTRADCDX460
Label: roughtrade
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'Stay Positive' is the fourth studio album from The Hold Steady and follows their hugely popular 2006 release 'Girls And Boys In America'. Working once again with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) the album sees the band continue in the same direction their previous release took them, mixing classic bar-room style rock with Craig Finn's half spoken/half sung lyrical tales of drinking, partying and love. The single 'Sequestered In Memphis' is also included.
Jul 2008
'Stay Positive' is the fourth studio album from The Hold Steady and follows their hugely popular 2006 release 'Girls And Boys In America'. Working once again with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) the album sees the band continue in the same direction their previous release took them, mixing classic bar-room style rock with Craig Finn's half spoken/half sung lyrical tales of drinking, partying and love. The single 'Sequestered In Memphis' is also included.
"Still tinkling their Born to Run pianos and revving their E Street guitars on album number four, the Hold Steady remain the pot-bellied everymen to Bruce Springsteen's handsome everyman. But this time around, they have been rummaging in the music chest. Harpsichords, mandolins and theremins add new colours to songs about murder and memory that weave together details mundane and mysterious - such as Sequestered in Memphis, where two strangers go back to "some place where she cat-sits" before an ominous incident occurs. At times, the bloodlust in Craig Finn's growl gets too thirsty. But it's the album's closing lyric - "Man, we make our own movies" - that reveals the secret of this band's special powers." - The Guardian ****
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28 June, 2008
Stay Positive is The Hold Steady's 4th album, and to be honest, it could easily be their best and their next step to stardom. Every hold steady album I have listened to I have been dissappointed with on the first listen. but then another couple of listens and its my favourite album of all time. Same with this one! With up beat starter "Constructive Summer", the incredibly catchy "Sequestered in Memphis", an amazing guitar solo in "Lord, I'm Discouraged" and the staggering finsher "Slapped Actress", this album can't be beat. I think this version includes 3 bonus songs, even though it only lists one, "Ask Her For Some Adderrall".
EDIT: It now lists all of the bonus tracks, so... yeah. buy it.
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The thinking man's bar band, the Hold Steady use a thundering classic-rock template--evoking everything from Boston to the Faces--as a base from which lead singer Craig Finn delivers his epic sung-spoken Springsteen-esque narratives of searching for faith and redemption at the bottom of an empty bottle. Refreshingly irony-free, the Hold Steady are one of the best reminders of rock & roll's classic spirit to have emerged in the early years of the new millennium.
track listing
- Listen 1. Constructive Summer
- Listen 2. Sequestered In Memphis
- Listen 3. One For The Cutters
- Listen 4. Navy Sheets
- Listen 5. Lord I'm Discouraged
- Listen 6. Yeah Sapphire
- Listen 7. Both Crosses
- Listen 8. Stay Positive
- Listen 9. Magazines
- Listen 10. Joke About Jamaica
- Listen 11. Slapped Actress
- Listen 12. Ask Her For Some Adderall/Cheyenne Sunrise/Two Handed Handshake [bonus track]
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