Blog: Direct Current

New album from Portland, Oregon art/pop trio Stars of Track and Field may be a slightly more succinct and focused successor to their masterful and ambitious 2007 debut Centuries Before Love and War, but there's still plenty of tasty meat on the proverbial beastly bones of A Time for Lions , arriving September 15 (Windup). To wit: "The Breaking of Waves", a near-perfect 3 and 1/2 minute exercise in dressing up a sweeping melodic structure with just the right amount of tastefully ornate guitar jangle and synth lines. (Are we sure these guys aren't secretly [...]

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