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It Falls Apart

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This album is one of the best albums I have ever heard. Every time I listen to it I am dumbfounded by its pure genius. It is written like a concept album or movie score to an apocolyptic, futuristic, love story. This album contains sounds and ideas that I have never heard used before. Many tracks go from moments of bliss to being sprung into chaos with machinery and turmoil similar to the rites of spring (the classical peice not the band). The song could easily be one long dramatic song. Each story weaves in and out of the other and sets the mood of a 1970's psychadelic cartoo. Sit on the couch, close your eyes and listen to this album all the way through. You will never let go of it. I only wish there other albums were as amazing.

I stumbled upon For Stars listening to online radio (radio for the masses just doesn't play music like this where I live). I instantly fell for "Calm Down Baby," and without hearing another one of their songs, had to have it. Some people may find their music sodden and sad, but I truly have to say I love it. LIFE is sad often, it's a part of it. Roy Orbison knew it, as well as Morrissey and lots of other artists. Few just have the bravery to belt it out in all its brutal, honest form. Those in the world who appreciate tender, heartfelt lyrics and music will love this album. However, if you want bubble-gum happy pop tunes, this so isn't for you. Stick with Britney and Christina.

With their fourth release ...It Falls Apart, California's For Stars expand upon the moody melodicism of We Are All Beautiful People. Main architect Carlos Foster has been honing his songwriting chops over the last decade to achieve a compelling cross between Death Cab for Cutie and experimental Radiohead. Those are jumping off points only - For Stars have been slogging it out in the underground as long as their more successful counterparts. ...It Falls Apart, their breakthrough, hangs together like a vaunted concept album, the "it" of the title being love, of course. Eight songs in a short 37 minutes, it starts with a self-recrimination ("I Should Have Told You") and ends, full circle, with rejuvenation ("Lend Out Your Love"). Foster has an aching voice used to great effect with the plaintive lament of "friends, again" on "Calm Down, Baby". And "If It Falls Apart" is an epic suite that folds ten years of indie rock into ten minutes of alterna-bliss.