It's been a long time since we've found a great new CD on a Target endcap. I mean, we all have to admit it's pretty rare. A few years ago, though, Mookie discovered Stars of Track and Field in just this way. Not on the interwebs, not at the indie record store, not on the radio (that's for sure), not by browsing iTunes. But it was on display on an endcap at Target. And that first album we discovered, Centuries Before Love and War , was excellent. I still love it. They actually [...]
If you've never been to the Middle East in Cambridge, MA, it's an absolute must. I had the privilege of squeezing into the Middle East Upstairs, which was about the size of my apartment's living room, to see Stars of Track and Field open for Lights. Who are you mystery man? Your music is wonderful. There was also an opening one-man act before Stars of Track and Field; I walked in about half way through his set. His friend was kind enough to give me his name, but [...]
Expectations are a funny thing. Being new to the band, before listening to this album I noticed that it was on Wind-Up Records , the home of Creed , Evanescence , 12 Stones and the like. I was pleasantly surprised that the album owed more to Brit-Pop than to their label-mates. The band has retained some of the electronic elements of 2006's Centuries Before Love and War . These are most effective on the slower songs that close the album. The question is will the expectations of fans of their last [...]
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 [...]
In 2006 Portland, Oregon trio Stars of Track and Field delivered one of the years finest and most auspicious debuts - Centuries Before Love and War - an album that was as grandly ambitious as its title. Like many modern bands, SOTAF proved that they don't have to play solely within one defined genre but prefer to draw upon a diverse palette of influences: the ambitious atmospheric scope of the more mainstream Pink Floyd epics, the more contemporary electronic edge of Aphex Twin, the straightforward melodic pop of The Beatles and, when the mood struck, the [...]
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