Stars' Latest Album Deserves a Fair Hearing From Indie Pop Fans
Stars has relocated from Tornoto, to New York & more recently Montreal over the past decade.
Both Pitchfork & AMG gave a mixed review to the Stars' new album
The Five Ghosts dismissing the band as moment in 00s indie rock that has passed. Indie pop has lost a lot of ground to electronica over the past decade, but it's hardly on it's last legs. I've never lost my taste for early twee music or some of the more baroque sounding indie pop groups like the Hepburns, Louis Philppe, the Acid House Kings, the Monocrome Set & the Field Mice. The music of those artists is timeless echo chamber of the Sixties pop masters like Burt Bachcarach, Serge Gainsbourg, & Lee Hazelwood. The best music of Stars elevates pop music from commerical product to high art, in the same manner of those early masters of baroque pop.
It may a decade or so but eventually Stars' music will be reassessed in a more favorable light by the music opinion makers.
I've liked
The Five Ghosts as much as any other album release of 2010. I particularly like the mysterious & elegantly crafted lyricism of the album's opening cut
Dead Hearts.
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The Five Ghosts isn't quite the unequivocal masterpiece as 2005's
Set Yourself on Fire, but it comes close. It was my own introduction to the Stars as a band and I only bought the cd because the album title was irresistible to an aging punk nihilist like myself. I wasn't disappointed and the Orson Wells declaration at the opening of the song
Your Ex Lover Is Dead was one of the finest moments in rock music at the dawn of the 21st Century.
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