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Music : In Our Bedroom After the War |
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827590280021
Format: Enhanced
Label: Arts & Crafts
Manufacturer: Arts & Crafts
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arts & Crafts
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Studio: Arts & Crafts
Sales Rank: 15185
MPN: 02800
Disc 1:- The Beginning After the End
- The Night Starts Here
- Take Me to the Riot
- My Favourite Book
- Midnight Coward
- The Ghost of Genova Heights
- Personal
- Barricade
- Window Bird
- Bitches in Tokyo
- Life 2: The Unhappy Ending
- Today Will Be Better, I Swear!
- In Our Bedroom After the War
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Album Description:
On September 25, Stars will release their fourth studio album, In Our Bedroom After The War. It’s Stars’ most confident and compelling work to date, an album that showcases the seven years of experience they share as a band. It was recorded at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, BC and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Shins, Morrissey). For a limited time, In Our Bedroom After The War will include a bonus DVD featuring a 55-minute documentary of Stars’ live performances and interviews while touring Set Yourself on Fire.
Amazon.com:
Montreal's Stars are certainly a theatrical bunch (and not just because co-frontman Torquil Campbell is also an actor). Their passionate delivery of love and breakup songs--often sung dialogue-style between male frontman Campbell and female lead Amy Millan--is a compelling combination of musicianship and dramatic intensity. In Our Bedroom After the War is similar in style to Set Yourself on Fire--albeit a little gentler and more intimate in tone--capturing the many varied elements that Stars do best. "Midnight Coward" begins with Millan's gentle voice singing "sweetness never suits me," then eventually expands into an abundant, symphonic-sounding conclusion. "The Ghost of Genova Heights" features co-vocalist Torquil Campbell evoking a Scissor Sisters funkiness, which may surprise some fans. "My Favourite Book" is a bright, sunny spot showcasing Millan's penchant for smooth, silky jazz-pop a la Morcheeba or The Style Council. Throughout, the group remains poets-cum-performers--topics range from love between political protestors ("Barricade") to emotive hook-up attempts between personal-ad users ("Personal"), always done with lush musicianship that's often Moulin Rouge-esque at its core. Note to diehard fans: the limited-edition version of the disc is well worth the investment, featuring a captivating hour-long DVD that is part travelogue, part interview, and is filled with impressive clips from live shows throughout Europe and North America. --Denise Sheppard
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Stars is the best band that I had never heard of until this year. I now own all their albums, including their strange little release SAD ROBOTS from November 2008. Blending interesting lyrics with synthpop sensibilities, a flare for the dramatic, and dueling male and female vocalists, Stars is hard to quantify, except that they are excellent.
Their newest album, IN OUR BEDROOM AFTER THE WAR, is darker than previous albums, which lyrics that can tear at the listener's heart. Poignant ... Read More
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For Stars, the nineties never happened. All members have metabolized the two pillars of 80s British pop-rock -- Smiths and New Order -- so thoroughly that they don't need to copy them, they just exude them. Prefab Sprout, Electronic, Sundays, Everything But The Girl, even Cure: the intelligent melodic music of Northern England is shimmering inside every song. On the other side, I bet that Campbell & Co. cannot locate Bristol on the map, and listen to Portishead or Tricky only when they are in ... Read More
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Stars was a band that I loved at first listen. It was pure coincidence: they were opening for Death Cab For Cutie in Orlando and only later did I learn that they were a spinoff of Broken Social Scene (one of my favorite bands today).
With "In Our Bedroom After the War" they build up on the brilliance of "Set Yourself on Fire," delivering a solid album that keeps you engaged with the smooth vocals where male and female almost play with each other, alongside with the fantastic arrangements ... Read More
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The stars lyrical quality is hypnotic. If you are a fan, this album does not disappoint, although the continuity between songs isn't quite as consistent as previous albums. If you are new to them then start with the earlier albums to get a better sense of where their electro-pop influences have come from. Great lyrics and narrative basis to the songs. Easy on the ears!
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i've been a fan of this band since i heard of them from a friend. their melodic voices and intelligent lyrics from their previous albums have always been my weakness, but this album ascended my love for them to all new heights. the album has a soundtrack feel, and as you listen to it all the way through, the characters are brought to life by the music.
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