 Title - 'Stellastarr' (RCA)
Artist - Stellastarr
This is one new-wave post-punk indie-pop band capable of transforming a mess of influences (everything from The Pixies to The Jesus & Mary Chain back around again) into a smoothly-oriented and masterfully-written album. stellastarr may conjure up a thousand and one comparisons to The Cure and Echo and every other seminal '80s rock band, but by grabbing bits and pieces of their genres' histories then rearranging, reworking, and blatantly toying around with them, ss has managed to craft a sound that might not be original (or even close to it), but still somehow oddly refreshing!
Nick Gurney
www.RCArecords.com
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