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In Our Bedroom After the War [Vinyl]In Our Bedroom After the War [Vinyl]
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by: Stars
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Sales Rank: 143687
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Released: 2007-09-25
Media: Vinyl
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Title Tracks for In Our Bedroom After the War [Vinyl]
- 1. Beginning After the End
- 2. The Night Starts Here
- 3. Take Me to the Riot
- 4. My Favourite Book
- 5. Midnight Coward
- 6. The Ghost of Genova Heights
- 7. Personal
- 8. Barricade
- 9. Window Bird
- 10. Bitches in Tokyo
- 11. Life 2: The Unhappy Ending
- 12. Today Will Be Better, I Swear!
- 13. In Our Bedroom After the War
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Album Description
On September 25, Stars will release their fourth studio album, In Our Bedroom After The War. It’s Stars’ most confident and compelling work to date, an album that showcases the seven years of experience they share as a band. It was recorded at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, BC and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Shins, Morrissey). For a limited time, In Our Bedroom After The War will include a bonus DVD featuring a 55-minute documentary of Stars’ live performances and interviews while touring Set Yourself on Fire.
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Montreal's Stars are certainly a theatrical bunch (and not just because co-frontman Torquil Campbell is also an actor). Their passionate delivery of love and breakup songs--often sung dialogue-style between male frontman Campbell and female lead Amy Millan--is a compelling combination of musicianship and dramatic intensity. In Our Bedroom After the War is similar in style to Set Yourself on Fire--albeit a little gentler and more intimate in tone--capturing the many varied elements that Stars do best. "Midnight Coward" begins with Millan's gentle voice singing "sweetness never suits me," then eventually expands into an abundant, symphonic-sounding conclusion. "The Ghost of Genova Heights" features co-vocalist Torquil Campbell evoking a Scissor Sisters funkiness, which may surprise some fans. "My Favourite Book" is a bright, sunny spot showcasing Millan's penchant for smooth, silky jazz-pop a la Morcheeba or The Style Council. Throughout, the group remains poets-cum-performers--topics range from love between political protestors ("Barricade") to emotive hook-up attempts between personal-ad users ("Personal"), always done with lush musicianship that's often Moulin Rouge-esque at its core. Note to diehard fans: the limited-edition version of the disc is well worth the investment, featuring a captivating hour-long DVD that is part travelogue, part interview, and is filled with impressive clips from live shows throughout Europe and North America. --Denise Sheppard
Product Details
In Our Bedroom After the War [Vinyl]
- Vinyl: 0 pages (2007-09-25)
- Publisher: Arts & Crafts
- Label: Arts & Crafts
- Studio: Arts & Crafts
- Sales Rank in Music: #143687
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:  Hope in Darkness, By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: In Our Bedroom After the War (Audio CD) I can remember where I was the first time I heard Stars. I was at my mundane little office job enjoying some internet radio when suddenly, amongst the typical and expected, came a song that immediately distracted me from the job I was supposed to be doing. It was not only beautiful, but touching, catchy, and - dare i say - perfect. The song was "Heart," the title track from Stars' 2003 breakout album. The song stuck with me, but I never really pursued my interest in the band. One day, about a year and a half later, I was in my local record store looking for something to buy. For some reason (providence, really), I thought of Stars, a band I hadn't heard in months. But the store didn't have any copies of "Heart," only their new album, "Set Yourself On Fire." Hmm? I wasn't sure. I scanned the barcode on the CD and previewed the first song on the album, "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead." I've been a Stars fan ever since. Their entire catalog is filled with effortless pop masterpieces, featuring...Read more 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful: You're my favorite book, By This review is from: In Our Bedroom After the War (Audio CD) The Canadian indiepop band Stars has never had a problem with crafting sad songs with shimmery music and pretty vocals, and this has definitely not changed in "In Our Bedroom After The War."
In fact, their fourth full-length album takes that tendency even further. Instead of a string of individual songs, it's a musical-style sequence of songs that seem to be about the sorrows of life and live during a war. With, of course, with lots of lush indiepop and murmury vocals. It opens with a slow-building electropop tune that isn't quite catchy enough to make you pay attention. That is reserved for the swirling, dreamlike ballad "The Night Starts Here," a simple song with moments of insight ("You name your child/After your fear/And tell them/"I have brought you here"). Fortunately the songs that follow take after the latter than the former -- shimmery keyboard tunes, driving guitar-filled powerpop, exquisitely flickering ballads, and the discoey...Read more 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:  Why have I not heard of Stars before?, This review is from: In Our Bedroom After the War (Audio CD) In my quest to drag my music collection out of the 80's and into the latter half of this decade, Stars is one of the bands I've recently got my hands on. I bought Heart, Do You Trust Your Friends?, Set Yourself on Fire and In Our Bedroom After the War in one fell swoop.
With no preconceived ideas of "what they should sound like", "what they used to sound like", or how long-time fans judge album x versus album y, "In Our Bedroom..." rises to the top for me. Stars flirt with electronic pop a tad more than lovers of the garden variety four piece indie bands will feel comfortable with, but beautifully blend their sometimes dark, sometimes conversational, lyrics with bright sounds ... violins, synths and very catchy indie hooks. Perhaps the final dollop of freshness this album offers me over others in my collection is the use of two lead singers, Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan. The dialog between Campbell and Millan in "Personal" for example is sad...Read more |
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