00-stars-in_our_bedroom_after_the_war-(advance)-2007.nfo
ARTiST: Stars
TiTLE: In Our Bedroom After The War
LABEL: Arts & Crafts
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 55:54 min
SiZE: 80,0 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-13-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-25-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. The Beginning After The End 02:20
02. The Night Starts Here 04:53
03. Take Me To The Riot 03:49
04. My Favourite Book 04:06
05. Midnight Coward 03:45
06. The Ghost Of Genova Heights 04:36
07. Personal 04:07
08. Barricade 03:52
09. Window Bird 04:44
10. Bitches In Tokyo 02:50
11. Life 2: The Unhappy Ending 04:16
12. Today Will Be Better, I Swear! 05:49
13. In Our Bedroom After The War 06:47
Release Notes:
True to form, the new Stars album contains two songs
remain doggedly interested in people, not their
In Our Bedroom After the War, though it contains
M.O.s, strengths and failings. A young band and
pretty, concerned with surfaces which always turn
bother to notice; sonically generous, lyrically
inclusive; a little full of themselves. The lyrics
through skittering drums and distant, twinkling
keyboards, and eventually Campbell and Millan sing
couples leaving restaurants are beautiful, or senior
bands are as good at making songs to score nighttime
journeys of nebulous purpose. Sometimes they
too-trivial circular melody and a cinematic conceit
nightmares, would close the album better than the
awful title track. (Hemingway condemned war for the
lovers it tore apart; Stars for the damper it puts
When not embracing the pretty bits of the cosmos,
the band contents itself with caressing innerspace.
enveloping one over which Millan has better control.
lite disco that channels the Decemberists through
Ray Davies Jr. and washes the gunk from each. These
than one. Elsewhere, as usual, the band gets bogged
down in the hostility of their love, and their
efforts to analyze it are at once less shallow and
sounded like mid-period Garbage, which is what all
songs should sound like.
beautiful-people narratives are never quite strong
silly ghost story and straightforward love song
respectively, rise to the top buoyed not by their
emotions or observations but by keyboards and
write a perfect record until they learn what their
songs need, and abandon the inevitable few tracks on
abstract, though; perhaps Stars are too close and
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