Stars - Heart
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Free Music Review: just read the reviews!
Hit: 5 Stars
Stars Heart (Arts & Crafts)Stars long for escape. Just as the quartet fled New York City for the imagined romance of French-speaking Montreal, its music nostalgically recalls a rose-colored past. They wrap this longing for a better world (or at least better love-life) in a pseudo-Eighties mix of weightless, skipping beats, cheesy keyboards and inspired melodies -- think Prefab Sprout without the conceptual grandeur. Reality never gets them down; the string-enhanced album closer, "Don't Be Afraid to Sing," remains hopeful as it slowly unravels. The Stars add little orchestrated touches throughout that make it seem like they're scoring an imagined indie film. But it's the sympathetic duets from Torquil Campbell (who as an actor has appeared on Law and Order and Sex and the City) and Amy Millan that trick you into believing that enduring love can be as fresh as first sight. (ROB O'CONNOR)
Free Music Review: Love this album!!
Hit: 5 Stars
Heart, Look Up, Elevator Love Letter are fabulous, fantastic, lovely. Other good ones too but these are the standouts.Elevator Love Letter is my personal single of the year (since 2003 is when I discovered this album) I'm not thrilled with the production. It's quite synthetic. Sounds like it was recorded, mixed and compressed on a home computer. No "warmth" provided by the recording process, entire album has a digital sheen over the top. This is my only knock. I can't imagine how good this album would be with a better mastering job, or dare I say a remix with tracks bounced to analog tape, because these songs, lyrics, and Amy's voice are just chill inducingly good. I think that Elevator Love Letter would be a top 40 hit with a re-master. I haven't gotten sick of it yet and I listen to this CD at least once a week after having it for months.
Free Music Review: Wonderful
Hit: 5 Stars
I have not been so excited about a band for years. I found Stars on www.kcrw.org giving two amazing live performances and bought Heart. I was surprised, the CD is very produced in contrast to their live performaces. This difference proves them right, they are excellent in the studio and amazing live. I was fortunate to see a show in Hoboken earlier this month. Stars accomplishment is a unique and affecting voice that encapsulates many, many post-punk-pop-trip-hop influences of the 80s and 90s. They even dared to cover 'This Charming Man' on the 'Nightsongs' CD and to my surprise it WORKS. I spoke with Amy and Evan at the show and they were lovely. Stars are the real thing,incredible musicians that have found a voice for themselves that is moving music forward. Go for the ride, it's gorgeous and complicated and fully realized.Free Music Review: A venturing sucessful
Hit: 5 Stars
I spend pretty much all of my money on music. I'm dressed in rags at this very moment. So in other words I have a lot of music and of everything I have bought, downloaded, seen live, seen on tv, and heard, I would have to say that this cd is one of the best ever.
Stars present something unbelievably delicate, enchanting, hauntingly beautiful. It will draw you in and distract you in the most pleasant way. Every single song is crafted at a first listen, efortlessly, but with repeated exposure it would seem each tune is the result of stringent artistic focus.
But don't listen to all this. Just buy it.
You will love it and the songs will be stuck in your head for longer than you could ever imagine.
And you will be happy with this.
Free Music Review: Great songs, great lyrics, great voices
Hit: 5 Stars
Elevator Love Letter is the best song you've never heard. There are at least 4 REALLY GOOD songs on this album: Look Up, song #8, ELL, and Snowman.....and maybe only one that I don't enjoy listening to..the one which is the most twee. "The Vanishing" or something.
Amy's voice: great. Torquil's voice: very good.
Production is a little over the top in terms of compression, but that's pretty much the norm these days.
This IS a better album than Set Yourself on Fire, in terms of pure songwriting and performances.
Anyway, as a pure pop album, this is brilliant. No, they don't mess their hair up and snort coke to be "edgy", Torque tends to the more pretentious side, but that is refreshing at this point in history.