o2. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War

Choosing an album for this week's edition was quite the task. Upon conceiving this idea, I had made a list of the albums I wanted to do by week. Alas, here we are, the second week, and I am already digressing from my list! Trust me when I say that this entry is worth the digression. This week's contribution is from another great Canadian Indie band called Stars. No doubt, many of you have heard of the band Stars who are based in Montréal. The album I'm posting, titled "In Our Bedroom After The War" is by far my favourite offering from the ecclectic bunch.

In this album, their fifth studio release over a six-year span, Stars re-invent their already innovative sound by employing more of Amy Millan's sultry vocals and Torquil Campbell's bone-chilling melodies. After jumping from Toronto, to New York, and ultimately planting themselves in Montréal, the group has absorbed the musical surroundings of cities left behind, and added those flavours to their own work. The band has evolved from their electro-pop beginnings and blossomed into full-blown indie rock mode making them one of Canada's greatest contributions to the indie scene thus far.

Here is "In Our Bedroom After The War": another compelling and stunning contribution from Stars.


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Tracklisting
1. The Beginning After the End - 2:20
2. The Night Starts Here - 4:53
3. Take Me to the Riot - 3:48
4. My Favourite Book - 4:05
5. Midnight Coward - 3:44
6. The Ghost of Genova Heights - 4:35
7. Personal - 4:07
8. Barricade - 3:51
9. Window Bird - 4:44
10. Bitches In Tokyo - 2:50
11. Life 2: The Unhappy Ending - 4:16
12. Today Will be Better, I Swear! - 5:49
13. In Our Bedroom After The War - 6:46

o1. Feist - The Reminder

Here I am, scrolling through my iTunes and feeling incredulous at the amount of amazing music that this country produces, and a light goes off in my over-used and under-maintained brain. Why not start a weekly thingamajig showcasing what I believe to be some of the greatest releases from Canadian artists? So I decided to do it. Lately, my affinity for Canadian artists has blossomed into a full-blown love affair complete with lies and mischief! The lies being "No way, I'm listening to death metal" and mischief being "I'm in love with so-and-so" where so-and-so is usually some half-decent looking vocalist or a haggard bass player. But I digress!

This week's album is a sexy piece by Feist. "The Reminder", the third release from the Canadian lo-fi songstress, was released in May and has since reaped mixed reviews. Many have dubbed this offering as the best pop album to be released thus far in the year. I give to you "The Reminder" by Feist. Enjoy. Leave feedback. Let me know what you'd like to see up here!

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Tracklisting
1. So Sorry - 3:12
2. I Feel it All - 3:39
3. My Moon My Man - 3:48
4. The Park - 4:34
5. The Water - 4:46
6. Sea Lion Woman - 3:39
7. Past In Present - 2:54
8. The Limit to Your Love - 4:21
9. Brandy Alexander - 3:36
10. Intuition - 4:36
11. Honey Honey - 3:27
12. How My Heart Behaves - 4:26

Baleeted!

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I'm still iffy about switching it up to the Blogger world, but we'll see how this works out. After I become really very bored of crossword puzzles and re-reading old books, I'll work on the HTML portion of the blarg. Ah, blarg.