Jack Burton Adventures #2  While Jack has been tying up lose ends with his insurance company and causing mayhem at the wheel of his truck, Mao Yin and Wang Chi have been busy. Wang and Mao’s wedded bliss is about to be shattered when the prayer scroll reveals more about Mao Yin’s future than she expected. 8-Bit #1  Dexter works for the video game world record organization Parallel Universes and he has more VHS tapes of player scores than he can handle. When Dexter drifts off while watching a high score attempt, he finds the game has come to life and he is in the middle of a new 8-Bit reality.
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News > Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War: Arrives 2 months early?
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Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War: Arrives 2 months early?
By: The Royal Tea
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Stars prior album Set Yourself on Fire was near perfect in it's production, melody, lyrics, and composition. Their latest effort In Our Bedroom After the War finds itself following up the album that opened thousands of hearts to the romantic nature of the group, and does it deliver? Yes. Does it pick up where the last one left off? No. If you're looking for Set Yourself on Fire 2 you're going to be out $9.99. Surprisingly however, and sure to be missed by most, is the fact that the parts missing, weren't actually what defined Stars to begin with. And the basic nature of the group is more focused and refined than ever before.
Unlike most bands, Stars have not merely added 12 more songs to be easily confused with the previous works, they have matured. Despite the newer sound, the core ideal of the band has carried over with even more clarity. Being a pop album, you'd be surprisingly hard pressed to find any truly radio friendly tunes here. And this is where we see the true nature of Stars and it stares us in the face why we've loved them to begin with.
Every song on the album is really just broken pop music. Tempos suddenly change, beats get dropped, extreme falceto erupts without warning, and out of nowhere we're falling in love all over again, even though it'll never see the light of airplay. Again we're graced with a group of musicians who actually bring new ideas to the indie-pop table. Take the title track for example, which bares a fresh approach to the monotonous protesting of war, combining optimism with reality. Taken from the after war perspective, we're reminded that there will always be personal problems, but at least there is peace. It's message is so genuine even the most conservative of human mentality would go calling back every troop from every sea.
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Metropolis 11 x 17 Print  A scene from the 1927 film Metropolis, this depicts a direct frame of the film where Rotwang (the inventor) displays his newest creation, a human-imitating robotic wonder to Joh Fredersen. Jack Che Guevara Burton T-Shirt  Start your own Chinese stand off just by wearing this shirt. You'll truly shake the pillars of heaven. |