Set Yourself on Fire
- 艺人
- Stars
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Arts & Crafts
- 发行时间
- 2005年03月18日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
The artwork for Stars' Set Yourself on Fire is eye-catching and dramatic, like a protest painting or Keith Haring subway drawing. And that's before you find the inside shot of a woman in a ski mask and little else, contemplating a flaming hand torch. The art direction's boldness complements the maturity in Stars' music, where nothing's just indie pop and string arrangements sound as perfect as the keyboards. Vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan enunciate every word with careful precision, and they sing of remembered high-school romances, dead ex-lovers, and drunk current ones in basic but powerfully evocative language. It's a twentysomething life, told in short story form. In opener "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead," Campbell and Millan's characters don't rekindle their relationship, but they don't apologize for its end, either. "I'm not sorry I met you," they harmonize. "I'm not sorry it's over/I'm not sorry there's nothing to save," and the song's strings and brass build to a surging outro that's the wordless acknowledgement of everything they had. The title track is augmented by strings of its own, keening dizzily in the background of an undeniable electronic pop pulse, and "What I'm Trying to Say" does the same thing, but replaces the strings with electric guitar. "Reunion"'s near-perfect guitar pop brings to mind Spoon, and mid-album mates "Sleep Tonight" and "First Five Times" have different views on the intent of (and locations for) modern romance. The songs blend trumpet, keyboard effects, acoustic guitar, and electronic and analog percussion for an intelligent pop sound that doesn't need bells and whistles to be unique. Stars rely instead on melody, charisma, and lyrics as sharp as any modern essayist, and it's all they need to sell the quiet grandness of Set Yourself On Fire.
最新简评（共67条）
- @XXX：很棒的专辑 从一开始听到之后就很喜欢 到现在也是如此 加油＾０＾~
- @连理枝头春意：好
- @奎(If not later...)：TWENTY YEARS ASLEEP
- @噢嘘听唿：indie pop, chamber pop和rock的结合，带来弦乐、管乐、摇滚三大件和电子的碰撞
- @er(我爱你)：杰克和吉尔
- @晃晃想睡觉(如果凡事都能用cost&...)：Sorry, your ex-lover is dead and Live through this, I won't look back... 所谓的没有人是傻子 哈哈哈
- @巨扌♋︎ξ糸(我在低俗与高雅间活的很尴...)：。
- @一页音乐：hi
- @T.IS.A.LUV(Preparing...)：Calendar Girl~莫名吸引~~看来可以去看看电影~
- @樊米虫与小黄鸡：set yourself on fire