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 These guys are lame Jun 02, 2009
These guys suck. Sounds like everything else. Also, the drummer puts electrical tape over his tits which makes them worse. Thanks but no thanks.
 When I finally find the words I'll be coming back to you Mar 05, 2008
I first saw the video for "My Coco" late night on Fuse's The Dive and became enamored of the group's sound and purchased the CD. With guitar reminiscent of U2 and vocals somewhere between Ric Ocasek and Fred Schneider, the band produces an updated new wave sound. They bring a frenetic energy to each track and the eclectic lyrics and vocal style may not be to everyone's taste. For example, bassist Amanda Tannen's background warbles are sometimes off key, but for some reason I found it charming. Other's may not. This album is like a diamond in the rough, all weird angles. The songs are great slices of pop, though, extremely catchy with often brilliant guitar parts that stick in your head for days afterward. My personal favorites are "Somewhere Across Forever", "A Million Reasons", and "Jenny". A delightful debut.
Catchy Jan 21, 2008
A co-worker played Harmonies for the Haunted on our way out to lunch one day and I was so fascinated, I bought the two stellastarr* CDs available on Amazon. I had no idea this was the first CD, and while I'm pleased with it, I prefer Harmonies for the Haunted (their second release). I still really enjoy this CD and I'm glad that I bought it. I'd say the lyrics are well-written and you find yourself singing along. The whole CD is rather upbeat, good music to drive or play in the background while you''re hanging out with friends. Definitely not moody, depressing style stuff.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
New Wave Meets Indie Rock. May 30, 2006
This CD is absolutely great, from start to finish. The lead singer, Shawn Christensen, has a great voice, reminiscent of the Cure. The best songs (or at least my favorites, because the whole album is too great to compare the songs to each other!) are "My Coco" and "A Million Reasons".
STELLABRANDSPANKINGFANTASTICSTARR Aug 06, 2005
i loved it, simply, there i said it. i don't care that it maybe could be described as derivative, unimiginitive, because it is all this and more, it is only unimiginitive if you yourself do not imagine that you have never heard anything like it before, because you haven't, have you?
it works, the whole of it; the album, rarely, works as a whole, it can be listened all the way through and the stand out tracks, obviously "My Coco", are not so far ahead of the snarling pack as to mark this as obviously blighted as say that single selling mechanism that is Hot Fuss, or even the mightlily overrated Franny Ferdinand.
Previous singles "Jenny" and "Somewhere Across Forever" revel in the Pixies punk-pop perfection with a crescendo of stop-start guitar hooks and twists, but this album firmly moves on from this 80's reverie. its opener,"In The Walls", with its gothic guitars, is a knowing mockery of the smiths and the cure, it would sound perfect in some swanseaic teenage bedroom, with black paint and eyeshadow, but it is when you actually here the music, rather than just listen to it, that you realise, that this is a denial of their influences and a firm f$ck you to their fans.
the bass driven savoyard/pop-funk of "A Million Reasons" takes the lead from savoyard/punk-funksters Hot Hot Heat, while the exhilarating "No Weather" is pure vintage-Ash. but again, i believe, rightly, that this is a snub to them, a musical anti-tribute that only the most foolish will take as hommage.
so hurray for them and the stellastarr will long remain upon my turning wheel of music, for it lasts and ages like some mad self refilling, ever aging, bottle of port wine, like a thing that gets better with age, like a maggot.
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