Jun. 30, 2010 - Issue #767: The Bestest of Edmonton 2010
The Five Ghosts
Stars / Supplied
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Soft Revolution, 2010
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A good formula is no less a formula. The newest effort from Stars sounds deflated: it's a melodramatic assembly of glow pop anthems that, if held apart from past records, would be celebrated by fan and critic alike. Unfortunately, Stars still remains immersed in the after-glow of 2004's Set Yourself on Fire. Let's give Stars the benefit of the doubt and assume the lyric matter (strictly ghosts) is a genuine fascination and not a sad ignorance of a 2007 vogue the group hasn't realized as being over. Either way, Five Ghosts is towed along by Stars' signature one-liner sensationalism. Perhaps Stars is cursed by its own ghosts, doomed to hide in its own shadow. It might be time for a rebirth.
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