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Mourning Trance

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Tuesday August 20th, 2013
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Mourning Trance is a record about loss and family, but also about coping and finding a way to enjoy life through all of the exhaustion. It's an album about waking up every morning, working eight hours, and still finding a way to celebrate surviving another day.

In Still Life Still's case, that way was the only one the band knows - writing and playing music with best friends.

The album was recorded and produced in Toronto by Alex Bonenfant (Crystal Castles, Metz) the result of that process is a weird, beautiful pop record, inspired by, and in honour of the brilliance and absurdity of real life. Those bittersweet experiences continue to be what drives the band and record.


  •           1.   Burial Suit
  •           2.   Dancing Spines
  •           3.   Mourning Trance
  •           4.   Aim and React
  •           5.   Werewolves
  •           6.   In Enemies
  •           7.   Revolving Doors
  •           8.   Deer Hologram
  •           9.   Thinking About Our Plans
  •           10.   Hanging With Our Family


In Enemies

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Tuesday June 11th, 2013
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  •           1.   Refusal to Die
  •           2.   In Enemies


Girls Come Too

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Tuesday August 25th, 2009
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Together since grade school, Brendon Saarinen (vocals/guitar), Eric Young (vocals/guitar), Derek Paulin (bass), Aaron Romaniuk (drums) and Josh Romaniuk (keyboards/percussion) have been playing music together over the past decade. Through enthusiastic word of mouth and the band's infectious performances in the Toronto house party scene, Still Life Still has built a devoted Toronto fan base.

Girls Come Too was recorded and mixed by Martin Davis Kinack and Kevin Drew. Recorded largely live off the floor, the songs capture the band's raw and irresistible, thrill-a-minute live sound.


  •           1.   Danse Cave
  •           2.   Flowers and a Wreath
  •           3.   Kid
  •           4.   Lite-Bright Lawns
  •           5.   Neon Blue
  •           6.   Pastel
  •           7.   Planets
  •           8.   Knives In Cartoons
  •           9.   T-Shirts
  •           10.   Scissors Losing Weight
  •           11.   Wild Bees


Pastel EP

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Tuesday June 16th, 2009
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Produced by Martin Davis Kinack and Kevin Drew, Pastel is a bold sample of what fans and new listeners can expect from the band�s upcoming full-length album, due in early fall.

Still Life Still has been around for nearly a decade, formed in the Toronto suburb of East York when the guys had just hit double digits and were barely tall enough to hold up their instruments. Over the years the band has gone through line-up and name changes, but the core five have remained the same: Brendon Saarinen (guitar/vocals), Eric Young (guitar/vocals), Derek Paulin (bass), Aaron Romaniuk (drums) and Josh Romaniuk (keys/percussion). The connection of having played together for a decade instantly comes through in the band�s live performances, which inevitably erupt into a pogo frenzy of fans.


  •           1.   Pastel
  •           2.   80s On TV
  •           3.   Aid



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Given how Still Life Still emerged in 2009 with its sex-drenched, party-inspired debut Girls Come Too, one might be surprised by the thematic shifts in 2013's ominously titled follow-up, Mourning Trance.

But then, those shifts become much more clear, given what the Toronto band has endured during the four years since that introduction. Together since grade school, Brendan Saarinen (vocals/guitar), Eric Young (vocals/guitar), Derek Paulin (bass), Aaron Romaniuk (drums) and Josh Romaniuk (keyboards/percussion) are as much a family as a band. And during the writing of Mourning Trance, three members of that extended family - including both of Young's parents - passed away.

So Mourning Trance became about loss and family, but also about coping and finding a way to enjoy life through all of the exhaustion. It's an album about waking up every morning, working eight hours, and still finding a way to celebrate surviving another day.

In Still Life Still's case, that way was the only one the band knows - writing and playing music with best friends. The end result of that process is a weird, beautiful pop record, inspired by, and in honour of the brilliance and absurdity of real life. Those bittersweet experiences continue to be what drives the band and record.

Mourning Trance is a wake for the living, and a celebration for all that's left.

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