The Birth

Stardeath & White Dwarfs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: WEA/Reprise
• ASIN: B00264U0NK
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #127,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Product Description

After traversing the galaxy as the road crew for fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips, a strange yet melodically intoxicating band has emerged-psych/prog/experimental pop quartet Stardeath And White Dwarfs. One half stoners with nothing to do but roll joints on their King Crimson record sleeves and one-half confetti launchers/ space bubble technicians, Stardeath And White Dwarfs debut their own free-floating circus with their first full-length album, The Birth. A mind-trip of emotion and mood, recalling everything from 'upper' dance freak-outs to 'downer' Floyd-esque anthems, The Birth celebrates
a love of all things psychedelic.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZON!!! You're missing a star in your rating system..., July 8, 2009

By	A. M. Gulan "DJ Desario" (The Moon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Birth (Audio CD)

What an absolutely overwhelming way to announce yourselves to the world...Stardeath And White Dwarfs' "The Birth" is surreal...a genuine sonic smack in the face --- the likes of which I haven't received since (Stardeath And White Dwarfs' lead singer Dennis Coyne's genius-uncle Wayne Coyne's band) The Flaming Lips knocked my senses clear out the stratosphere back in 2002 with the astounding "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots". Now it is 2009, and in a year where The Flaming Lips are set to release another surely seminal, certainly space-saturated album (tentatively called "Embryonic"), is it possible that their Okie-kin may have beat them to the punch with an otherworldy and brilliant debut album? For the sake of their credibility, the music rag industry needs to just crown this as the album of the year, immediately. It's simply stunning. Brilliant from the first harmony all the way to the final fuzz, I can't believe this band is still, by and large, a well-kept secret. While other (read: lesser) tripped-out bands are getting all the press (ahem...Animal Collective), "The Birth" is an auditory buffet that I want to keep getting in line for, over and over and over. "I Can't Get Away" is impossible to get away from...which is either irony or brilliant artistry. I would tend to lean toward the latter, as the evidence of the band's sonic & poetic brilliance needs no further evidence than to listen to the brilliant conclusion to the heartwrenching "Country Ballad". If Stardeath and White Dwarfs didn't just blow their whole load in one massive shot, and actually have several bullets left in the chamber, this band has just punched a one-way ticket to their final resting place in that legendary shrine in Cleveland. Very rarely are debut albums this complete and impressive. The time spent with the Flaming Lips is flowing all throughout the album, tastefully, artfully, and originally. The obvious Pink Floyd influence is apparent, and will immediately draw comparison, which is fine by me. It's hardly a negative thing to be mentioned in their vein, and in this instance the sound is only subtly familiar...ideas have clearly been plucked from all sorts of genres and styles...ears could even hear a more psychedelic version of early Oasis, bits of STS9, and even some moe., but it is an adventure 100% worth taking...sadly only stretching a little over a half-hour. It immediately leaves you longing for more, and one can only hope that the band quickly gives us more and more of this beautiful, melodic freak-rock to satiate the inevitable thirst this album causes. I am so excited for the future of this band, but for now, all I know is that this album makes me not want to kill myself.

5.0 out of 5 stars Breath of fresh air, April 20, 2010

By	B. Cook - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: The Birth (Audio CD)

The title of my review is the absolute truth--in an era of seemingly endless sea of mediocre modern-alternative rock bands, Stardeath and White Dwarfs stands out from the crowd. I don't actually think its fair to group them in the same genre. Maybe its their indirect influences of Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath (the mellower, yet still groove oriented Sab); however, it is the more direct and quite obvious influence from frontman Dennis Coyne's Uncle Wayne's band, the Flaming Lips that I hear that makes me smile when I listen to them (THAT, and the fact that they don't really sound too much like anyone else off the top of my head). Don't write them off as imitators, because they have their own style compared to that of the Lips'. It's a little more fuzzed out, a little more straight forward, just as trippy and diverse, and simply an all around great album. Do yourself a favor an pick up a copy of it-You won't regret it.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stardeath, March 3, 2010

By	Craig Owen (New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: The Birth (Audio CD)

Well, I only brought this CD cos The Flaming Lips recommmended it. And I know its heresy but I actually like this a whole lot more than Embryonic. Maybe this should have been the next Lips CD? Its great - give it a go