Track Listing

1. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
2. Set Yourself On Fire
3. Ageless Beauty
4. Reunion
5. Big Fight
6. What I'm Trying to Say
7. One More Night
8. Sleep Tonight
9. First Five Times
10. He Lied About Death
11. Celebration Guns
12. Soft Revolution
13. Calendar Girl

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214384 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .16 pounds

From the Label
Canada is currently producing a ridiculous number of hot new bands – who will all now have to move along to make room for Montreal five piece, Stars, who release their stunning album, Set Yourself On Fire in Europe and the UK this summer. Closely aligned with the exciting Broken Social Scene collective and signed to the renowned Arts & Crafts label in the US, Stars are a classic pop outfit with a relentless armoury of tunes, king size harmonies and an infectious spirit that is undeniable. Insistent and infectious, Evan’s driving bassline and the swirls of Amy’s breathy vocals leave you reeling for more. Some bands can exist in a timeless pop bubble that bursts all other attempts at the genre. Stars are one such band. After parading their wares at SXSW and taking London by the scruff when they played their lavishly embellished, drama-filled songs of love and anguish with reckless abandon at the Buzzard, Stars are poised to go stellar with their brilliant album, Set Yourself On Fire.

Customer Reviews

My favourite album of 2005 (so far)
Have you ever wondered whether it is possible to fit all of your favourite musical styles and genres into one neat little package of an album? I have, and when I first heard this CD in full yesterday, I realised that this was the album that did it for me.

Instead of relying on the past or post-modern quirkiness to sell their music, Montreal's Stars seem to exude a warmth and guile that allows them to mould their work into a thinking person's guide to all that is important in post-2000 indie/alternative rock.

Ageless Beauty is the undoubted poetic gem, but the political statement of Celebration Guns, the closet theological ramifications of He Lied About Death, and the beautiful album closer Calendar Girl are all about stretching the boundaries of what sound and poetry can combine to create.

This is an absolute must-have album for anyone who has any interest in the future of rock and roll and its progenitors.

Perfect harmonies and blissed-out fuzz
The reviews below are spot on. I don't know how I missed this the first time around. To my ear it sounds kind of like Arcade Fire being produced by My Bloody Valentine. It combines the soaring harmonies and melodies of the former with the blissed-out, fuzzy warmth of the latter. The stand-out tracks are probably Ageless Beauty and Your Ex-Lover, but there is no drop off in quality through the whole set. In fact, the songs work beautifully together, with a lot of different sounds and textures going on, while making a perfectly formed whole. In particular, the perfect boy/girl harmonie provide a common thread which links everything together. A really beautiful record.

This is lovely
This is a lovely album, in a sense of the word that is rarely used. I didn't find it through the OC, but bought it on something of a mad impulse, as it was recommended by a character in a webcomic (Shelley Winters). I'm glad I did. The opening track is utterly amazing, and you will be singing it for a long time. The other highlights are the unexpectedly dark 'One More night', the insanely catchy 'I am trying to say', and the anarchicly hopeful 'soft revolutio'. An album for dreamers who loudly refuse to completely grow up.