Longing To Toy With Your Emotions
What do you get if you take the grand cathedral grasping overture out of Arcade Fire? Simple, you get Stars. Imploringly captivating and breathtakingly emotive, Stars are a Canadian band that are able to capture the magnificence of Arcade Fire within ethereally sweet pop songs wrapped in delicacy that speak from the heart and pluck every emotional chord in your body.
Taken from their album, ‘In Our Bedroom After The War’, ‘Midnight Coward’ is a spine tingling wash of mesmerising gentle pop built around the tandem vocals of Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell. Working almost as a tag team, Campbell and Millan concoct a boy versus girl scenario that plays beautifully off one another as lyrics boasting an intellectually poetic tone entwine themselves playfully around tentative beats. Like Morrisey without the cynicism and doused in a blanket of simplistic effortlessness, ‘Midnight Coward’ is hypnotically enchanting and longing to toy with your emotions.