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.
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]
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]
^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.
