(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Stars
Album Title: Set yourself on fire
Year released: 2004
Year reissued: 2012
Details: Black vinyl, 180 gram, repress
The skinny: Fresh off seeing the Canadian indie pop collective last night at the National Arts Centre with the house orchestra as support, and where they performed the song below, “One more night”, “Your ex-lover is dead”, and others off this very album, I thought I’d spread some Stars love this morning. Released in 2004, “Set yourself on fire” is likely still considered the band’s high water mark, despite releasing five very fine albums since and still touring regularly to appreciative audiences. This album, along with Arcade Fire’s “Funeral”, was a big part of the reason that the world turned their collective ears to Canada and we had an indie pop renaissance of sorts for a few years at the beginning of the 2000s. This is big, bold, and beautiful sounding chamber pop (which leant itself well to orchestra accompaniment last night) and an album that was amongst the first that I sought out after starting my fledgling vinyl collection.
Standout track: “Ageless beauty”
9 replies on “Vinyl love: Stars “Set yourself on fire””
Great album – bet it sounds great on vinyl.
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It does at that.
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A fine album – and fine looking on LP!
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And fine sounding too. (Their show Saturday night here was very fine too.)
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Is that a different cover? I remember this album, but seem to remember a different cover… though I admit that I may be remembering a different album by the same band.
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It’s possible you’ve seen a different cover on it. There was a European cover that had a have naked person wearing a pink balaclava but this is the one I know and love. Great album.
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That’s the one… holding a knife or something…? But I’ll check it out…
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