The Canadian indie-pop group Stars, known for making perfectly orchestrated electronic infused rock, will be coming to town on Tuesday for a show at the Republic. Stars is not your typical pop/rock/electronic outfit. Their music is dark, introspective, and incredibly well thought out, with influences as diverse and varied as The Smiths, DJ Rashad, and Motown.
The band recorded their most recent album, 2014’s No One Is Lost, in a studio above a gay disco in Montreal. While working on the album they could hear and feel bass from the club below and were inspired to “out throb the throb.” That throb makes much of their new material quite danceable and less stiff than their earlier offerings.
Still, Stars’ can’t seem to shake a Type-A vibe that runs throughout their work, probably because their songs are so precise. House beats, disco guitars, background vocals, and sweeping lyrics almost make it sound like you are listening to a books-on-tape remix of the track “From the Night,” a noted departure from earlier, slower work like “Sleep Tonight.”
At Wenesday’s show the band should cover all the highlights from their sixteen year career, including tracks from their first major album Set Yourself on Fire that made them indie darlings over ten years ago.
Tickets are available here. Doors open at 8 PM.
