Stars
City Slang
Stars’ fourth album is all over the place, but in a gloriously messy, enveloping way. My Favourite Book sounds like Morcheeba; ‘Midnight Coward’ like Captain; ‘The Ghost Of Genova Heights’ perhaps Scissor Sisters. It’s tied together by a gentle decadence: swirling, ambient sounds wash over you, capturing the same spirit as Death Cab’s ‘Transatlanticism’ and taking you somewhere purer and otherworldly. A fantastic, majestic album from a band with an insatiable creative spirit.
