STARS Set Yourself on Fire LP CITY SLANG 2005 GER orig+inner SLANG1033791
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STARS
Montreal, Canada-based indie band who make charming, pristine chamber pop. Sharing a fondness for sophisticated soul and pop artists like the Smiths, New Order, and Marvin Gaye, vocalist Torquil Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman formed Stars in Toronto. Along with friends Evan Cranley (also of Big Rude Jake) and Amy Millan (who contributed to the soundtrack for the film Drowning Mona), the band relocated to New York City before returning to Canada, this time settling in Montreal. . "SET YOURSELF ON FIRE" 2005 LP CITY SLANG RECORDS SLANG1033791 MADE IN GERMANY ORIGINAL PRESSING SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVESBarcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 5 033197 337913 Label Code: LC 06853
LABEL: CITY SLANG - LILAC/PURPLE - BLACK TEXT Catalog on cover: (spine) SLANG1033791 (rear) SLANG1033791 / 706.3379.1 Catalog on labels: (Side A only) SLANG1033791 / 706.3379.1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): B532235-01 A1 SLANG - 1033791 A DMM HP Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): B532235-01 B1 SLANG - 1033931 B DMM HP
On labels: (Side A only) rim text "SLANG1033791.......© & ? 2005...........reserved" LC06853(circled) GEMA(boxed)
On Inners Sleeve: Lyrics & Credits
On Back Sleeve: LC 06853 © & ? 2005 Arts & Crafts International Under exclusive license to City Slang. All rights reserved.
tracklisting Side A: YOUR EX-LOVER ID DEAD - SET YOURSELF ON FIRE - AGELESS BEAUTY REUNION - THE BIG FIGHT - WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY Side B: ONE MORE NIGHT - SLEEP TONIGHT - THE FIRST FIVE TIMES HE LIED ABOUT DEATH - CELEBRATION GUNS - SOFT REVOLUTION - CALENDAR GIRL
grading RECORD NEAR EX (please, read above description) SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan enunciate every word with careful precision, and they sing of remembered high-school romances, dead ex-lovers, and drunk current ones in basic but powerfully evocative language. It's a twentysomething life, told in short story form. In opener "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead," Campbell and Millan's characters don't rekindle their relationship, but they don't apologize for its end, either. "I'm not sorry I met you," they harmonize. "I'm not sorry it's over/I'm not sorry there's nothing to save," and the song's strings and brass build to a surging outro that's the wordless acknowledgement of everything they had. The title track is augmented by strings of its own, keening dizzily in the background of an undeniable electronic pop pulse, and "What I'm Trying to Say" does the same thing, but replaces the strings with electric guitar. "Reunion"'s near-perfect guitar pop brings to mind Spoon, and mid-album mates "Sleep Tonight" and "First Five Times" have different views on the intent of (and locations for) modern romance. The songs blend trumpet, keyboard effects, acoustic guitar, and electronic and analog percussion for an intelligent pop sound that doesn't need bells and whistles to be unique. Stars rely instead on melody, charisma, and lyrics as sharp as any modern essayist, and it's all they need to sell the quiet grandness of Set Yourself On Fire...(AllMusic)
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