Stars

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Stars
Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, Stockholm 2005
Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan, Stockholm 2005
General information
Genre (s) Indie pop , indie rock
Website youarestars.com
Current occupation
Singing, trumpet
Torquil Campbell
Vocals, guitar
Amy Millan
Bass , guitar
 Evan Cranley
Chris Seligman
Pat McGee
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Five Ghosts
  US 67 07/10/2010 (1 week)
The North
  US 48 09/22/2012 (2 weeks)
No One Is Lost
  US 117 11/01/2014 (1 week)

Stars is a Canadian indie pop band that had their breakthrough in 2004 with the album Set Yourself on Fire and the single Ageless Beauty .

history

Originally founded in Toronto by friends Torquil Campbell (vocals) and Chris Seligman (keyboard), they moved via New York City to Montréal , where they live today. The band also includes Amy Millan (vocals, guitar), Evan Cranley and Pat McGee (drums).

In 2001 the band released their debut album, Nightsongs . Her first album released in Canada is Hearts (2003). Their breakthrough came with Set Yourself on Fire (2004), whose single Ageless Beauty was a huge success in Canada and made the band known in Europe. This album was only released in Germany in 2005. The formation then toured solo and as support for Bloc Party in Germany.

Torquil Campbell had several appearances as an actor in addition to his work in the band, including in the US series Sex and the City and Law & Order . There is a close connection between stars and the supergroup Broken Social Scene . Amy Millan and Evan Cranley played on Broken Social Scene, and the bands have toured together.

The group released their album In Our Bedroom After the War in July 2007 over two months before the CD was officially launched on various commercial online music services . The song The Night Starts Here was made available for free download . Her records appear in Europe on the City Slang label . In June 2010 the fifth studio album The Five Ghosts was released . Once again, the first two singles, Fixed and We Don't Want Your Body, were published free of charge on the Internet in advance.

Discography

  • Nightsongs (2001)
  • A Lot of Little Lies for the Sake of One Big Truth (2001, EP)
  • The Comeback (2001, EP)
  • Dead Child Stars (2002, EP)
  • Heart (2003)
  • Set Yourself on Fire (2004, in Germany and the USA 2005)
  • Do You Trust Your Friends? (2007, remixes of Set Yourself On Fire )
  • In Our Bedroom After the War (2007)
  • Sad Robots (2008, EP)
  • The Five Ghosts (2010)
  • The North (2012)
  • No One Is Lost (2014)
  • There Is No Love in Fluorescent Light  (2017)

Web links

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  1. ↑ US chart history
  2. ↑ Article on the publication of In Our Bedroom After the War on Visions.de ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.visions.de
  3. ↑ Free Download of The Night Starts Here at Tonspion.de
  4. ↑ Article and free download at Tonspion.de