ARTiST: Stars
TiTLE: In Our Bedroom After The War
LABEL: Arts & Crafts
GENRE: Indie
TiME: 55:54 min
SiZE: 80,0 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Aug-13-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-25-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. The Beginning After The End 02:20
02. The Night Starts Here 04:53
03. Take Me To The Riot 03:49
04. My Favourite Book 04:06
05. Midnight Coward 03:45
06. The Ghost Of Genova Heights 04:36
07. Personal 04:07
08. Barricade 03:52
09. Window Bird 04:44
10. ~censored~ In Tokyo 02:50
11. Life 2: The Unhappy Ending 04:16
12. Today Will Be Better, I Swear! 05:49
13. In Our Bedroom After The War 06:47
Release Notes:
True to form, the new Stars album contains two songs
about protesters and no protest songs—Torquil
Campbell and Amy MillanÂ’s chamber-pop troubadours
remain doggedly interested in people, not their
ideas. (Stars’ best song is “Elevator Love Letter,”
about CampbellÂ’s Gatsbian love for rich-girl Millan;
their worst is “He Lied About Death,” about Bush.)
Even confined to the first subject the bandÂ’s skill
varies: “Take Me to the Riot,” warm and expansive,
is a fine shallow anthem, but “Barricade,” a wistful
ballad about the romance of cruelty (“How could
anyone not love the terrible things you do?”) isn’t
Nabokov; it isnÂ’t even Mickey Spillane.
In Our Bedroom After the War, though it contains
nothing on the level of the bandÂ’s best or worst, is
the handiest inventory yet of StarsÂ’ obsessions,
M.O.s, strengths and failings. A young band and
pretty, concerned with surfaces which always turn
out to be warped or pocked in ways many wouldnÂ’t
bother to notice; sonically generous, lyrically
inclusive; a little full of themselves. The lyrics
of the album’s first real song, “The Night Starts
Here,” are a list of the kind of things Stars songs
are about: “the time we have,” “the task at hand,”
“the dusk at dawn,” “the being free,” “that big
black cloud over you and me.” The litany hums along
through skittering drums and distant, twinkling
keyboards, and eventually Campbell and Millan sing
together, and itÂ’s a little beautiful, the way
couples leaving restaurants are beautiful, or senior
prom. Such carpe noctum is StarsÂ’ strong suit; few
bands are as good at making songs to score nighttime
journeys of nebulous purpose. Sometimes they
strain—“Life 2: The Unhappy Ending” sinks under a
too-trivial circular melody and a cinematic conceit
that doesn’t work—but the songs most in danger of
being intolerable can become highlights—the
penultimate “Today Will Be Better, I Swear!,” with a
title and chorus sprung from Sufjan StevensÂ’
nightmares, would close the album better than the
awful title track. (Hemingway condemned war for the
lovers it tore apart; Stars for the damper it puts
on young urbanitesÂ’ days.)
When not embracing the pretty bits of the cosmos,
the band contents itself with caressing innerspace.
“My Favourite Book” is the best showcase yet for
MillanÂ’s loose whisper, not as fine a song as Set
Yourself On Fire‘s “Ageless Beauty” but a less
enveloping one over which Millan has better control.
Similarly, “The Ghost of Genova Heights” may be
Torquil CampbellÂ’s finest moment, a slice of goofy
lite disco that channels the Decemberists through
Ray Davies Jr. and washes the gunk from each. These
two solo outings are In Our BedroomÂ’s contributions
to the small pantheon housing “Elevator Love Letter”
and “Ageless Beauty,” and though they’re lesser gods
itÂ’s the first time a Stars album has birthed more
than one. Elsewhere, as usual, the band gets bogged
down in the hostility of their love, and their
efforts to analyze it are at once less shallow and
less effective than Heart‘s snappily titled “Death
to Death.” Love for Stars has always been violently
exclusive, as ready to kill those who donÂ’t matter
as save those who do, and though “Barricade”
addresses this paradox more directly than ever, itÂ’s
a sodden torch song, a chore; “Death to Death”
sounded like mid-period Garbage, which is what all
songs should sound like.
This continues to be StarsÂ’ weak spot: their
beautiful-people narratives are never quite strong
enough to live unsupported by sonic candy. “The
Ghost of Genova Heights” and “My Favourite Book,” a
silly ghost story and straightforward love song
respectively, rise to the top buoyed not by their
emotions or observations but by keyboards and
“doo-doo-doo”s. In Our Bedroom After The War is
StarsÂ’ most consistent, nuanced album, and says good
things for the future, but Campbell and Millan wonÂ’t
write a perfect record until they learn what their
songs need, and abandon the inevitable few tracks on
which itÂ’s refused. Perhaps perfection is too
abstract, though; perhaps Stars are too close and
warm to bother. I canÂ’t protest that.
artist info:
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lyrics
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