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STARS - Do You Trust Your Friends?
| PrefixMag |
| Take a quick glance at your Top 8. Look over the pictures of your buddies in various drunken and bare-chested poses. Then ask yourself, Do you trust your friends? Amy Millan, Torquil Campbell and the rest of Stars obviously do; for this project, they've let their indie-rock brethren cover their critically acclaimed and most successful album to date, 2005's Set Yourself on Fire. ...full text |
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| AV Club |
| Remixes of songs by rock bands can often be frustratingly ho-hum, to the point where they sometime raise the question of whether the songwriters are just using them to get everyone re-excited about the originals. While it's true that Do You Trust Your Friends?—a.k.a. Set Yourself On Fire, a 2004 album by Canadian romantic-pop troupe Stars, as overhauled by some of its well-known pals—does a better job of reminding listeners of the source material's quality than presenting itself as an equal alternative, it's also much more than just an indie-rock record with a bunch of dance beats tossed in....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| The remix album is always a cagey prospect, and in the era where downloading single songs is more popular than buying full albums (depending on who you talk to), it’s an increasingly risky endeavor. Are fans going to pay full price for a disc that is practically guaranteed to be a hit-and-miss listen? Wouldn’t they rather just download the mixes they prefer? Usually a remix album is a stopgap release between albums; that is no different here. ...full text |
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