Seemingly out of nowhere, Montreal-based band The Stills have left the chameleonically-hip label, Vice Records and put their third (yet to be recorded) album in the hands of Arts and Crafts. The departure from Vice appears to be friendly, stating on the Stills website, "Vice fished us out of the ocean... Without them we actually wouldn't be a band at all."

Although there is no concrete reason for the signing, The Stills have had friendly ties with Arts and Crafts and many of the bands for numerous years, sharing stages with Broken Social Scene last summer. Plenty of poetic reflection flowers their press release, and to summarize it seems that the band had been going through some unfocused years or as they refer to them, "mad, wasted, beautiful, acid snow-globe years" and this new union has "rejuvenated" them.

The follow-up to their sophomore album "Without Feathers" will be recorded in Montreal and is slated to hit shelves in early spring of 2008.

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posted by Chris Kelly on Sep 10, 2007