Harmonies For The Haunted [Content/Copy-Protected CD] [Enhanced]

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Stellastarr*'s histrionic, over baked second album paints teenage daydreams with such technicolor saturation they're impossible to deny. Singer Shawn Christensen may be overly overwrought, but how are these for song titles worth scribbling in the margins of your schoolbook: "Damn This Foolish Heart," "Island Lost At Sea," "When I Disappear," and of course the single "Sweet Troubled Soul"? On the surface they sound a lot like Interpol (who Stellastarr* of course predates) mixed with latter day Echo and the Bunnymen, but these are sometimes-fabulous, moody Arena-emo (Aremo?) tunes that are pretty sophisticated, really. The slick sheen of big radio production and incongruous backing vocals are a bit much at times, but Shawn's Danzig-on-downers vocals really grow on you after a few listens and the drumming is fabulous and often perfectly un-rockist. -Mike McGonigal

Harmonies For The Haunted,stellastarr*,RCA,Indie Rock,Noise Pop,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop,United States of America

Harmonies For The Haunted [Content/Copy-Protected CD] [Enhanced]

Average customer rating:

stella-five-starrs!!
Nice follow-up album from a great live band.
Extremely Underrated Band-Excellent Album
3.5 stars-- Great power pop, gets better with each listen!
So disappointed!

Harmonies For The Haunted
stellastarr*
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AA7HK6
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

Lost In Time
Damn This Foolish Heart
The Diver
Sweet Troubled Soul
Born In A Fleamarket
On My Own
When I Disappear
Love And Longing
Stay Entertained
Island Lost At Sea

Amazon.com

Stellastarr*'s histrionic, over baked second album paints teenage daydreams with such technicolor saturation they're impossible to deny. Singer Shawn Christensen may be overly overwrought, but how are these for song titles worth scribbling in the margins of your schoolbook: "Damn This Foolish Heart," "Island Lost At Sea," "When I Disappear," and of course the single "Sweet Troubled Soul"? On the surface they sound a lot like Interpol (who Stellastarr* of course predates) mixed with latter day Echo and the Bunnymen, but these are sometimes-fabulous, moody Arena-emo (Aremo?) tunes that are pretty sophisticated, really. The slick sheen of big radio production and incongruous backing vocals are a bit much at times, but Shawn's Danzig-on-downers vocals really grow on you after a few listens and the drumming is fabulous and often perfectly un-rockist. -Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

stella-five-starrs!!.......2007-02-08

What a great album this is!! Saw them in NYC and performing they're amazing. Just thinking like lot of people that have been written here, it's such a shame they're so underrated. My fav's tracks are: Damn this foolish heart, Sweet trouble soul, when I disappear (this song reminds me so much about NYC) and Island lost at sea. Buy this album and support them, they deserve to be listened and we deserve to hear good indie music!!

Nice follow-up album from a great live band........2007-01-08

Ignore the reviews from those who think otherwise. And please stop basing your one and two star reviews based on the copy protection which has now been resolved due to class action. I had no problem scanning this into my computer and burning it to a CD, thus ending the DRM debate. Rate the artist, not the music company and their greed. Don't blame that on the band.

Extremely Underrated Band-Excellent Album.......2006-11-22

Hard to believe that The Killers once OPENED for Stellastarr*. I was at that show. I find StellaStarr* to probably be the MOST underrated band of the last 3-4 years. The melodies, singing and vocals are DEAD ON! The guitar riffs are amazing. The drumming dancable. Live-they are tremendous. And really nice people too. This Album is as good if not better than the first. Sweet Troubled Soul should have been a major hit. One of the best songs I have heard in this decade. Give Lost in Time and Sweet Troubled Soul a definite listen---Stay Entertained and Stay are definite hook ladended crowd pleasers. I just dont understand how anyone can not like this band. What a tremendous album!

3.5 stars-- Great power pop, gets better with each listen!.......2006-03-29

Somehow this band slipped through the cracks between Interpol, the Killers (this CD is much better than those), and all the other various 80's-influenced acts out there, but this is a really solid CD that gets better with each listen. You can hear the influences (Echo and the Bunnymen, the Cure, etc.), but the sound is still original and fresh. "Love and Longing" is a great tune to start with and easily holds its own with all those great 80's anthems those who grew up then know and love. But the first song, "Lost in Time," will hook you right away. "Harmonies for the Haunted" is great all the way through, and based on this CD I am going to get their debute, "My Coco."

So disappointed!.......2006-02-20

I agree with everything Andy French "Crotchety Music Fan" said. The first album was amazing, a classic, something I have played endlessly and will enjoy forever. All great songs, all different, one from the other. I so looked forward to this, and now that I have it, it's simply boring, boring, boring!

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