Astro.....but not the turf

I don't know much about astrology or astronomy for that matter, but its the best title I can come up with regarding the album that is going to sit at number 17 on the list. But before we get there........

A trip to NYC this weekend. Promises of blood and luxurious workout facilities are like the crack to my ____________ .(insert your favorite drug abusing celebrity, perhaps Steven Baldwin?)

"There will be Blood" was not showing in any local theatres yet, and I could just feel that this is movie that I will love and was getting very anxious at all the days going by without me seeing it. That said, it was all I thought it would be. Great story of obsession, loneliness, and greed and the psychosis that comes from it. Daniel Day Lewis lays the smack down and definitly has oscar written all over him, but he's always been great and recieved nothing for it....so i wouldn't be surprised if he again finds himself on the outside looking in. I think Hollywood doesn't like him cause he doesn't have veneer quality teeth.

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I also got to workout in a facility that didn't smell like sewage and wasn't so packed that I could actually move 5 feet without running into a douche. Although there was an unprecidented act of douchery that I had not seen before. A guy reading the newspaper as he was doing weight exercises. He would put the paper down on the floor and read as he lifted. Despite this act of d-baggery, I wish I could train there all the time though, but at 6 times the rate for what I am paying at a gym now, I am quite sure that I couldn't afford it.

NUMBER 17: Stars "In Our Bedroom After the War" The album that follows a critical success like "Set Yourself on Fire" is always going to be a tough sell. It also doesn't help when your lead singer gets in a fight with one of the most successful online music review pages and calls them responsible for the death of art.

From Canada, to NYC, then back to Canada; Stars is made up of 2 members of the Canadian Indie superpower Broken Social Scene (Torquill Campbell and Amy Millan) and a keyboardist named Chris Seligman.

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Their sound is very similar to Broken Social Scene without the dense and thick instumentation that is BSS's signature. Stars uses more vocals and capitalizes on the focused vocal abilities of Millan and Campbell Their voices which are great, are the highlight of the albums much more so than BSS does on their albums. Torquill definitly sings like a wannabe crooner of indie emotion. Maybe thats where the animosity comes towards him and why he is so defensive of his work. He tries too hard.

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This album is not as musically creative as Set Yourself on Fire was, but it's lyrics cry with more passion than the previous. They are probably running out of musical inspiration after a years cranking out creativity across both BSS and Stars, but their ability to create great lyrics and sing them well and more importantly match them well with the music is what makes this album a triumph for Stars. This 8 out of 10 album and it does not dissappoint the Stars' fans, but it's tracks are similar in style to Set Yourself on Fire, and if you were looking for some sort of break the mold album, this was not it. In Our Bedrooms is simply a continuation of the format of Set Yourself on fire with a little more lyracissim and a little less ground breaking harmonies.

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Well, this review sucks and I can't really come up with great things to say about this album, probably cause its simply just a good album and theres not much else to say. The music is sweeping and rolling pianos,violins, and vocals and the lyrics are good. So....number 17 everybody, woo hoo.

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Samples: The night starts here

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