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Stay - Mean Solar Times (Picture In My Ear Records).

Stay is a Catalan band made up of frontman, vocalist, and guitarist Jordi Bel, bassist Ivan Lopez, keyboardist Israel Palacio, and drummer Jordi Casal. Their latest album, 'The Mean Solar Times', was released on February 9, 2016, by the Minneapolis, Minnesota label Picture In My Ear Records. Produced by Owen Morris, a collaborator of Oasis and Verve in the nineties, the album effectively captures a range of sounds typical of British pop-rock from that decade. Starting with the references to Ride ('Pinkman', 'Smiling Faces', 'Dirt and Alone'), due also to the active collaboration of Andy Bell in the album's recording; then to Oasis ('Dirty and Alone', 'Shake the Sun'); and finally to Kula Shaker ('Mind Blowing (Extended Version)'). Certainly negligible episodes include the ballads 'Always', 'You Know It's Right', 'Hide Away'; 'Smiling Faces' recalls the Dandy Warhols, while 'All In Your Eyes (Extended Version)' reflects the sounds of Jacco Gardner and the latest Temples. Worth mentioning is the hypnotic groove of the remix of 'Pinkman' by Andy Bell. Not bad. If you like the Brit-pop sounds of the nineties laced with a good sense of psychedelia, you can’t go wrong. 3/5

Stay - Pinkman