"You drop a coin into the sea and shout out 'Please come back to me'..."

The Canadian band Stars is finally releasing a new album on September 25th. Titled "In Our Bedroom After the War," the first track that the Arts & Crafts label has opened up for download is called The Night Starts Here. Right click and take a listen for yourselves.

I think it's a bit more percussive than their previous material, and at first, found that to be a bit jarring. The song really comes into its own around the 2 minute mark when the layers soften out into a better blend than initially created and Amy Millan's voice feels a bit less staccato. It's at that point when the music really becomes a definitive Stars track. With such song titles as "The Beginning After the End," I'm really looking forward to the new material and hearing it in comparison to the very direct sound of Set Yourself On Fire.

If you enjoy Stars, then something to listen for, aside from the new album, is the individual work of Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning who are both contributing members of Broken Social Scene (whose other members, incidentally, are in Stars, Metric, etc). They are also releasing solo albums in September and early 2008, respectively.