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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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