By all accounts, the process of creating Set Yourself On Fire, Stars' third full-length album for Arts & Crafts, home to their dear friends and sometime collaborators and bandmates Broken Social Scene -- played like scenes from The Shining. During one of the coldest winters on record, the soft revolutionaries set up shop in a cabin offered to them by an odd man they'd met in a local pub, a chap named Alan Nicholls. While the snow fell outside, Stars nestled in their cocoon, drank rivers of booze, smoked t...   [ read more ]

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When an album starts off with each member of the band announcing, "I am ____, and this is my heart," you should probably know straight off what you're getting into. Stars have come to rock the master of your cardiovascular system, and if you're not prepared to accommodate a healthy serving of lyrical earnestness, you should probably just Remove All from your Winamp and go play some street hockey, you manly man you. Stars is yet another Montreal act keeping the indie pop dream alive in '03. Less all over t...   [ read more ]

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Fourteen tracks of pure heaven. Nightsongs, the long-awaited debut album from Stars, contains beautiful beats, heartfelt lyrics, and enough injections of Morrissey, Marr, Derrick May, Björk, The Blue Nile, New Order, Frazier Chorus, Style Council, Electronic, Marvin Gaye, The Chimes, and De La Soul to move St. Etienne and all the angels up in heaven to tears. Tears of joy. Salty tears the likes of which they've never wept before. A million dancehall dreams will be built around these words and rhythms. All ...   [ read more ]

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