Set Yourself On Fire Image
  • Summary: Boasting a somewhat higher profile after a tour supporting Broken Social Scene, fellow Canadians Stars return with a third LP, produced by Tony Hoffer.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 33
  2. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. 91
    Delicate Casio-toned anthems. [Mar 2005, p.91]
  2. Set Yourself On Fire could become your favourite record, and Stars should justifiably be many people's favourite band.
  3. It's too much risk-free computation and not enough wild emotion.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 56 out of 57
  2. Negative: 0 out of 57
  1. Blake
    10
    BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME!!! Beautiful little gem.
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  2. Logan
    10
    Truly wonderful! Filled with tons and tons marvelous songs from start to finish. Great music that anyone can enjoy.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DavidM
    5
    After a year of tracking music on Metacritic, I've come to realize it's number one flaw...it constantly leads to an over-inflated evaluation of middle-of-the-road, immaculately produced, pretty pop albums such as these. I'll be straightforward here, I gravitate towards extremes...extreme mellow, extreme volume, extreme aggression, extreme introspections...the danger zones. Safe stuff like this is never going to sell me completely. That said, even with my biases, this album does not deserve an 8, immaculate production does not compensate for average songs and average musical ideas. It's not bad, and it's way better than the Go Betweens, but like the Go Betweens, vastly overrated and none too inspiring. None of the emotional charge of Montreal counterparts Arcade Fire. Expand
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