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- Summary: The second full-length solo release for the Canadian artist who co-founded Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Thee Silver Mt. Zion is said to be inspired by the short relationship between TV host Mary Hart and Saudi arms dealer Mohammed Khashoggi.
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- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Jan 31, 2018Overall Menuck seems to have made a record no less personal than the first. Pissing Stars is mysterious yet relatable, and as always, a distinctly singular experience.
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Jan 31, 2018It is intimate and alienating; friendly and mysterious; and, most importantly, a whole lot of eerie fun for any listener interested in experimental music.
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Feb 8, 2018Pissing Stars feels purposefully small, a personal retreat from full-band compromise by someone who is trying to understand the world and his role in it. The result is indulgent, neurotic, and harrowing, a reminder of the complete mess we’ve made. But it’s oddly reassuring, too.
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Feb 2, 2018At the end of the day, this is a compelling addition to the Constellation ouvre, and there’s plenty to love here for fans of any moment of Menuck’s wonderful last 20+ years in recorded music.
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The WireFeb 23, 2018Pissing Stars sees his songwriting separate more fully from the motherships of Silver Mt Zion and GY!BE, skirting new fringes only a solo artist could reach. [Mar 2018, p.52]
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Feb 2, 2018Drones and feedback accumulate, intensify, and the whole thing threatens to collapse or combust. It does neither. ... Menuck’s difficult record is clearly a post-Trump artwork, a soundtrack for outrage fatigue. Its odd power raises questions.
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UncutJan 31, 2018Robbed of Godspeeds's crescendos, a melancholy gloom dominates. [Mar 2018, p.28]
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Feb 16, 2018
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