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- Summary: The Canadian indie rock band's first album on Soft Revolution was produced by Tom McFall.
- Record Label: Vagrant/Soft Revolution
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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| Dead Hearts | |
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| Tell me everything that happened Tell me everything you saw They had lights inside their eyes They had lights inside their eyes Did you see the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 10 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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The Five Ghosts is the band's most consistent album yet, and their best since 2005's "Set Yourself On Fire."
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The music brims with optimism, full of major chords, sparkling synthetic sounds and tireless electronic beats.
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Stars are quickly carving out their own niche among their peers. And in doing so, they're writing some of the most fluid and organic music of their lives.
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While it's all tricky, well-crafted music about heartbreak, nothing here breaks hearts the way the best Stars tracks over the years have done. Instead, Stars settle for big hooks and big emotions that inspire more admiration than empathy.
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Ghosts' flowing, synth-backed melodies are a vast improvement on 2006's hammy In Our Bedroom After the War, if not 2004's near-perfect Set Yourself on Fire. Cute isn't what Stars aim for, but it's often what they achieve.
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The elegant album is wisely paced, cinematic with strings and keyboards, and Campbell and Millan sound great together. But despite the emotional drama on offer, it fails to be moving.
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The formula works better elsewhere (see the perky, airy single "Fixed"), but like the adolescent musings that serve as its inspiration, The Five Ghosts is, at best, awkwardly sweet and, at worst, fumbling and tone-deaf.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 1 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Feb 6, 2022
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Sep 20, 2011
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