Q: Who are the Sterns?
A: I have no idea, but I love both these songs.
Don't be discouraged by this horrible album art, btw.
The Sterns - Sinners Stick Together
Well, okay, I have some idea who they are, but only because they're on MySpace:
Boston-based quintet the Sterns exemplify the knack for masterful song craft, strapping studio work ethic and a get-in-the-van-and-go DIY mentality. Sinners Stick Together, to be released nationally on March 13, 2007 by Boston’s Omnirox Entertainment, showcases the Sterns' deft lyrical turn of phrase and sonic anglophilia, melding the best elements of the Kinks, the Clash, Belle and Sebastian and the Smiths.[Any band whose P.R. material lists the Kinks first among their influences automatically has a good chance of appearing on T.A.M.S.Y., fyi.]
Co-produced by Richard Marr (whose credits include Sebadoh, Mary Timony and Gigolo Aunts), Sinners Stick Together expands their tongue-in-cheek world weary wit and shimmering anxious guitar pop to include idiosyncratic narratives and lush chamber-pop arrangements."Supreme Girl" -- about a young woman who turned out to be "not the supreme girl I thought she was" -- begins with the lyrics, Now she brags about her law degree / We used to chat about the lottery / Don'tcha know she used to present / Those novelty checks. I don't know what Ray Davies would think (or how lottery-related conversations symbolize the halcyon days), but I like it.
