Stars' last long-player, the sublime Set Yourself On Fire, is to receive the remix treatment a la the likes of Bloc Party's Silent Alarm and Her Space Holiday's The Young Machines. And, like, A MILLION others.
Do You Trust Your Friends - a track-by-track reinterpretation of the aforementioned album of no little acclaim - is due for release Stateside through Arts&Crafts in the autumn (reports Pitchfork); expect City Slang to pick it up in Europe, as they did with Set Yourself On Fire.
Among the artists contributing remixes are Metric, The Dears, Junior Boys and Broken Social Scene.
Stars (pictured) have but a brace of live American shows scheduled, in wake of the release of singer Amy Millan's solo album Honey From The Tombs. The band play Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 4 and the Austin City Limits bash in - d'uh - Austin, on September 15.
Read DiS's review of Set Yourself On Fire here.
No good bands playing then?
What on earth are you talking about?
you are a foo!
It must be difficult
to orchestrate a broken social scene remix, y'know, if its even a vaguely democratic process.
There's about 617 in the group at the last count, right? So how do they all chip in and do what they'd each like to do with the track without it being the biggest mess ever? Confusing. Perhaps they do it frank zappa-style and just play every single melody on every single instrument all at once and have a good pray.
or more likely
they just get the guy who actually writes the songs to have a tinker
you say remix album
so why do i hear "merciless cash churning exercise"...
how about another album, eh?
and the same goes for all the bands faffing around remixing their mates' albums instead of writing a new one themselves.
Can anyone name me a remix album (except for aphex twin's 26 mixes for cash) that would get into a top100 albums?
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not every album
is supposted to be 'best album evaaaaaaaaa'
not
what i said. the point is - why waste time making a remix album?
it might be good
besides, the band themselves won't be wasting time on it since they're not doing the remixing.
'Can anyone name me a remix album that would get into a top100 albums?'
Answer: A People's History of The Dismemberment Plan.
I win!
Heart
is a better album than Set Yourself on Fire.
amen
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no...
...I'm afraid you are quite quite wrong there.