umm yeah, if you haven't already checked out the band Stars, you're missing out big time! i don't really know who to compare them to... or i can't think of anyone off the top of my head. maybe broken social scene?
there is a guy singer (torquil) and a chick singer (amy), and wow, they harmonize together very well. i haven't had the opportunity to see them live yet, but i hope they come around here soon, because i hear they can certainly captivate the crowd.
some of my favorites off their latest record, Set Yourself on Fire:
"Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
"Ageless Beauty"
"The Big Fight"
"One More Night"
"The First Five Times"
"He Lied About Death"
actually, this next quote is off of their website, but i think it sums them up perfectly...
"Set Yourself on Fire is the sound of what happens after the thaw. It's thinking your life is on track, and when the floorboards collapse under your feet, giving in to the chaos instead of fighting it, starting over again more brilliant and gorgeous and raw than you've ever been before. It's knowing you have to decimate your own history in order to understand it. They claim they were aiming for a straight-up sex record, but ended up writing a sex and death and robots record - in Stars, everything that starts off simple blows up big, ornate and rich."
good stuff indeed.
the stars website
there is a guy singer (torquil) and a chick singer (amy), and wow, they harmonize together very well. i haven't had the opportunity to see them live yet, but i hope they come around here soon, because i hear they can certainly captivate the crowd.
some of my favorites off their latest record, Set Yourself on Fire:
"Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
"Ageless Beauty"
"The Big Fight"
"One More Night"
"The First Five Times"
"He Lied About Death"
actually, this next quote is off of their website, but i think it sums them up perfectly...
"Set Yourself on Fire is the sound of what happens after the thaw. It's thinking your life is on track, and when the floorboards collapse under your feet, giving in to the chaos instead of fighting it, starting over again more brilliant and gorgeous and raw than you've ever been before. It's knowing you have to decimate your own history in order to understand it. They claim they were aiming for a straight-up sex record, but ended up writing a sex and death and robots record - in Stars, everything that starts off simple blows up big, ornate and rich."
good stuff indeed.
the stars website
I've only listened to the last two CDs (Set Yourself On Fire and the other title escapes me at the moment). Mostly any playlist I create gets a Stars song.
