Yours to Keep (Sticky Fingers album) explained

Yours to Keep
Type:studio
Artist:Sticky Fingers
Cover:Yours_to_Keep_by_Sticky_Fingers.png
Studio:Rocking Horse Studios, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Genre:Reggae, rock
Label:Sureshaker
Producer:Dann Hume
Prev Title:Westway (The Glitter & the Slums)
Prev Year:2016
Next Title:Lekkerboy
Next Year:2022

Yours to Keep is the fourth studio album by Australian rock band Sticky Fingers, released in February 2019 through Sureshaker. It was produced by Dann Hume, at Rocking Horse Studios, Byron Bay.[1] Hume had produced the band's previous albums.[2] The album peaked at number four on the ARIA Albums chart.

Background

Yours to Keep appeared in February 2019, more than two years after Sticky Fingers' third studio album, Westway (The Glitter & the Slums) (2016).[3] Yours to Keep peaked at number four on the ARIA Albums and on the ARIA Top 100 Physical Albums charts, number three on the ARIA Digital Albums chart and number one on the ARIA Australian Artists Albums chart.[3] The band's line-up was Paddy Cornwall, Seamus Coyle, Dylan Frost, Eric "Beaker Best" da Silva Gruener and Daniel "Freddy Crabs" Neurath.

Reception

Matt Rocke of Rhythms Music Magazine reviewed Yours to Keep and observes, "[it] is sadly stymied and self pitying... they've stuck too close to their knitting and produced a tea cosy. In the end it hurts to say, it's just not there."[4] Atwood Magazines James Meadows claims the band "is coming to grips with the lifestyle that has both bestowed stardom and cursed them with many inner demons."[5] The album's tracks deal with their issues. Specifically lead vocalist Frost admitted "he struggled with alcoholism coupled with a recent diagnosis of bipolar schizophrenia."[5] Bass guitarist Cornwall and keyboardist Neurath described "the alcoholism and rehabilitation that the entire band underwent during their year off."[5]

Personnel

Charts

Year-end charts

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sticky Fingers to play The Academy . Hotpress.com . Kealy . Michael . 14 January 2019. 21 February 2019 .
  2. Web site: Australia's Chart-Smashing Sticky Fingers to Release New LP Yours to Keep. Broadwayworld.com . 4 February 2019 . 21 February 2019 .
  3. Week Commencing ~ 18th February 2019 ~ Issue #1511 . ARIA Report . Wallace, Ian . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 18 February 2019 . 1511 . 2, 5, 7, 10, 15–16, 27 . . https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20190813165252mp_/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20190218-0000/Issue1511.pdf. 18 February 2019 . 7 August 2022 . dead .
  4. Sticky Fingers – Yours to Keep . Rocke, Matt . Rhythms Music Magazine . 19 February 2019 . National Library of Australia . http://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190304062441/https://rhythms.com.au/sticky-fingers-yours-to-keep/ . 4 March 2019 . 7 August 2022 . live .
  5. Review: Sticky Fingers Pull Back the Veil in Yours to Keep . James . Meadows . Atwood Magazine . 27 February 2019 . 8 August 2022 .
  6. Web site: Australian Artist (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart 2019. Australian Recording Industry Association. 15 January 2020.