关注独立音乐的朋友不知道会不会忽视加拿大的清新势力，其实当更多的朋友把注意力放在欧洲清新小厂或者美国新锐公司的时候，象加拿大这样有着丰富音乐资源的国家总是被遗忘。
这次介绍的Star便是来自多伦多的乐队最初是在纽约组建，后来回到加拿大才调整到现在的阵容。Star迄今已经发表过三张专辑，自第二张Heart开始与加拿大独立公司Arts & Crafts合作。乐队主唱Torquil Campbell除了乐队的事业，还从事影视音乐的制作，曾参与《欲望城市》等剧的原声音乐编配。
虽说乐队成员大都是New wave的追随者，但在他们的音乐里所体现的仍旧是常青的吉他流行曲风骨，当然两位主唱（男女各一）嗓音的搭配令人感觉清新而不腻滑，较之欧洲一些清新团体过于甜腻的歌声来说，Star保留了更多的力量和激情。
这张新片于2004年9月18日在加拿大推出，到今年3月8日才在美国上市发行。作品水准统一，悦耳流畅，编曲方面张弛有序。相信喜欢Indie-pop的朋友会感兴趣。
（题外：当初接触这个团体的时候，对于他们的名字也感觉十分有意思。如此大众的一个词汇，竟然到他们才被选用做团体名称，而我们中国的乐队在取名字方面是越来越花哨，越来越不好记）

Torquil Campbell of Stars writes: "Nightsongs" was a loving pastiche, but a pastiche nonetheless; "The Comeback" e.p. is easily the best, most original music we've ever made; it is a reaction to the mundanity of some people's reactions to our work; and we like it very much. We love Montreal, but we are very poor and very bored with that; the only way to make a comeback is not give a shit about being made fun of! We don't give a shit! Don't make fun of us! We are very serious people! Amy and Chris are in love! Evan and Chris are in love! I hate all of them! vive la revolution douce! "KRUSH" (Amy calims this is about me making her move from Toronto to Montreal, but i think it`s about her having a crush on Sully. Whatever, it's a hook and we believe in hooks) "VIOLENT" (Let's just say that sexuality is a powerful artistic tool; Sully really sounds like he needs to get off in this song) "THE ASPIDISTRA FLIES (This is a love song for lovers and people who have hope about the world; we wanted it to be very very beautiful; Eric Hove is a genius and plays the most wonderful saxaphone) "COTE DES NEIGES" (We all wanted to write an instrumental, so I came up with the idea of a snowfall, seeing as that the sole sensory experience you have in Montreal between november and April; Cranner and Sully wanted it to sound like spiritualized; I wanted it to sound like Losaida from Joe Jackson's Body and Soul lp (there i go with that 80's obsession again!) so i wrote that theme) "THE COMEBACK" (When U first wrote this, I thought it was a character study of a washed up rock star; then I realized it was the most autobiographical song I've ever written! Maybe it's both! A band favourite).

14 tracks of pure heaven. Celestial slices and sidereal sounds. 'Nightsongs,' the long-awaited debut album from Stars contains beautiful beats, heartfelt lyrics, and enough injections of Morrissey, Marr, Derrick May, Bjork, The Blue Nile, New Order, Frazier Chorus, Style Council, Electronic, Marvin Gaye, The Chimes, and De La Soul to move St. Etienne and all the angels up in heaven to tears. Tears of joy. Salty tears the likes of which they've never wept before. But it's not too late. It's never too late for 'Nightsongs.' A million dancehall dreams will be built around these words and rhythms. Most of those dreams will be shattered: She'll break your heart. He'll never call. You'll never even say a word. All else might vanish, but these songs will last. Painful and perfect reminders of the hope. Reminders of that salvation in desperation, the living and the moving, the dancing and the grooving. Those moments of madness and sadness, of elation and vibration! These songs are already playing in your head. You can almost hear them. Put this disc in your system, turn it up and just let the music flow. A dizzying array of words will fall from the mouths of Stars, while bandmates Torquil Campbell, Chris Seligman and their gaggle of electronics and associates play poet to your past and pervert to your present. They even put "motherfucking" to use in a way that is both tactful and sublime. Their clubby cover of the Smiths' "This Charming Man" is sure to win them some instant fans, but their original compositions will have this band living up to their moniker in no time. The soft revolution starts here!

Six tracks: 1) My Radio (AM Mix), 2) This Charming Man, 3) When? (demo?), 4) On Peak Hill (Live), 5) Going, Going, Gone (Live), 6) Theme from the Stars.

Do You Trust Your Friends? is the reworking of the Stars acclaimed 2004 album Set Yourself On Fire. Band friends of have remixed Set Yourself On Fire track for track. The result is amazing.