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.[4]
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."[5]Atwood Magazine's James Meadows claims the band "is coming to grips with the lifestyle that has both bestowed stardom and cursed them with many inner demons."[6] 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."[6] Bass guitarist Cornwall and keyboardist Neurath described "the alcoholism and rehabilitation that the entire band underwent during their year off."[6]
Track listing
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1.
"Sleep Alone"
Dann Hume, Daniel Neurath, Seamus Coyle, Eric da Silva Gruener, Dylan Frost, Patrick Cornwall
4:47
2.
"Loose Ends"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:12
3.
"Cool and Calm"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:17
4.
"Another Episode"
Hume, Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
4:55
5.
"Not Done Yet"
Hume, Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:46
6.
"Kick On"
Hume, Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:13
7.
"Hyper"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:26
8.
"Sleeping Through the Flood"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall, Taras Hrubyj-Piper
4:04
9.
"Sunsick Moon"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall, Hrubyj-Piper
3:42
10.
"Yours to Keep"
Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
4:15
11.
"Junk"
ume, Neurath, Coyle, da Silva Gruener, Frost, Cornwall
3:49
Personnel
Paddy Cornwall – bass guitar
Seamus Coyle – guitar
Dylan Frost – lead vocals, guitar
Eric "Beaker Best" da Silva Gruener – drums, perussion
^Sticky Fingers (Musical group) (2019), Yours to Keep, Sureshaker and Sticky Fingers, retrieved 7 August 2022
^Rocke, Matt (19 February 2019). "Sticky Fingers – Yours to Keep". Rhythms Music Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2019. Retrieved 7 August 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
