The Million Stars, Flowers Strung On a Tree
Lily Allen, F*** You
Fanfarlo, I’m a Pilot
Liesl’s Wet Dress, Ruby
Beach House, Norway
Liam Finn & Eliza Jane, Won’t Change My Mind
Espers, The Pearl
Miike Snow, Animal
Le Tigre, What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes
Innocent Bandits, When Another Sun Shines
Sister Soleil, Hit Me
Stringer Belle, Take This Song
Jenny Lewis, Bad Man’s World
Willowz, Twenty Five
Lederhosen Lucil, Doin’ the Ganglion
Hannah Georgas, The Deep End
Leerone, To Fill the Void
Massive Attack, Splitting the Atom
Leah, Here’s to You My Friend
False Alarm, Tell Me Who I Am
Lady Lazarus, Master and Servant
Pants Yell!, Frank and Sandy
Laika, Bedbugs
Tulsa, Brooklyn
Ladybug Transistor, Oceans in the Hall
La Roux, Bulletproof
The Inoculators, Message in a Bottle
Psychology of Genocide, Tiger Shark Attack
Ladyhawke, Paris Is Burning
Hindi Guns, Loaded Gun
Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, Trouble Was For
Posts Tagged ‘the million stars’
Joel’s Hit Show, Episode 54, January 31 2010 Playlist
February 7, 2010The Million Stars “To Love”
December 27, 2009Here we have some standard female-fronted folky pop, like Suran Song in Stag or Flashing Red Airplane. The singing is not as distinctive as Bettie Serveert’s Carol van Dyk, but it’s off in that direction. “A Quiet Life” provides a good example of this. The piano is quite distinctive during the chorus.
“Moth” is a rainy-day-style song. It’s not specifically dreary, but it’s littered with somber moments, similar to what Lisa Germano is famous for.
“Flowers Strung on a Tree” is as good as any other track. (They do kind of all sound the same.) Not the best album for driving in traffic, but it’s good for studying or while watching football with the TV on mute.
Bands such as Rasputina get away with this because they’re a little weird. The Million Stars come across as straight-shooters, and it makes the music less distinctive. Again, it’s good, but there is nothing compelling about it. I welcome it to my library, but it will not receive special treatment.
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