fight fight fight.

sees like a pretty good single to me, but im only on track 3 so far so we'll see.

That review is an utter fucking disgrace. Whatever my views on the NME's reportage/angle, as a piece of written English it is truly awful.

As for the AM record, I couldn't care, but that comment indicating stellastarr* deliberately delaying the release is 100% FALSE. They've been taken for mugs by Sony and have been totally mucked around and it's all out of their hands,. It's not like Shawn hit on moments of Mariah-esque delusions of grandeur. Do some fucking research NME, you hire kids to do just that n'est pas?

Fair enough, the guy didn't like the record, and yes, the titles of the tracks aren't great, and acusations of pomposity are easily levelled at them, but that's no reason to dislike something. In a "song vs title" situation, I think song wins.

Basically the sentiment is, if you're British, write catchy (but ultimatley non-challenging) songs then you're not worth the NME's time.

My adoration of the band is well know, but by Christ, that's not a review, there's no journalistic credability to that at all, no credible argument, nothing.

Rant over

Harmonies for the Haunted is an absolutely brilliant album.
Its a new direction for the band sure, but an utterly brilliant one.

The Arctic Monkeys thing is pretty gay. Why even mention them at all?!
It's a fucking travesty when bands as amazing as stellastarr* are strugling to sell out venues, at the same time as Arctic Monkeys (who after a matter of months in the spotlight are getting boring already) are selling out everywhere they play, shit loads of albums sold. The NME only 'championed' them when it became clear something massive was stirring, they didn't like them from day one.

I don't want to turn this into a tirade aainst AM who have some good tunes, but stellastarr* might not be a s comercially popular, but they piss all over those lad from Sheffield.