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Lola Stars and Stripes
The Stills
Logic Will Break Your Heart
2003

The Stills is a band I've kind of forgotten about over the years.  They don't have the staying power (in my mind, anyway) of a band like Interpol (clearly a source of inspiration for The Stills).  BUT, on a whim, I popped this album in the other day and the opening track, "Lola Stars and Stripes" instantly filled me with the kind of uplifting buoyancy one can only get from music.

"Lola Stars and Stripes" has such a heartening effect that I tend to forget that it is about impending world-annihilation.  I love the way the opening of the song vibrates and shimmers.  It has a chorus that needs to be belted, that needs the enthusiastic accompaniment of close-fisted hand gestures.  The greatest song ever?  No.  But sometimes great means the way a song makes you feel in a given moment.