Star

[k.p.g]

I don't know why would someone regret knowing more about the artist in question.

just TRUST me.

[Minus1]

This thread is starting to piss me off.

[Balor/SS1535]

I don't know why would someone regret knowing more about the artist in question.

just TRUST me.

You can't leave us all hanging twice!

[Volcano Queen]

Star ate my homework.

[theotherjohn]

He ate my hamster too.

[Moran]

I like Life Goes On, Yutris and Elephant in the Snow. The overall warmth of the sounds, the scattered way more bothersome sounds are placed with familiar sounds and such feel like something remembered and nostalgic. I haven't spent much time with the other works.

[Balor/SS1535]

I was listening to Elephant in the Snow again on my drive home yesterday, and my thoughts went to the strange little story that appears with the album---supposedly "explaining" the driving concept.  Part of me thinks the whole thing is about 9/11, but perhaps that is too blunt?  Any thoughts?

[Duncan]

I was listening to Elephant in the Snow again on my drive home yesterday, and my thoughts went to the strange little story that appears with the album---supposedly "explaining" the driving concept.  Part of me thinks the whole thing is about 9/11, but perhaps that is too blunt?  Any thoughts?

It's more likely to be a text lifted from somewhere and fucked about with imo. I could be wrong. This might have been a convo I had with the man himself near to when it came out but have since drunkenly erased from my brain. I think it's generally not a great idea to take any Star Stimuli too literally. There will be personal meaning to the artist in there but buried beneath zillions of layers of circumstance and abstraction.

[Balor/SS1535]

I was listening to Elephant in the Snow again on my drive home yesterday, and my thoughts went to the strange little story that appears with the album---supposedly "explaining" the driving concept.  Part of me thinks the whole thing is about 9/11, but perhaps that is too blunt?  Any thoughts?

It's more likely to be a text lifted from somewhere and fucked about with imo. I could be wrong. This might have been a convo I had with the man himself near to when it came out but have since drunkenly erased from my brain. I think it's generally not a great idea to take any Star Stimuli too literally. There will be personal meaning to the artist in there but buried beneath zillions of layers of circumstance and abstraction.

Given the strong basis of that album in sampling, the appropriation of the text would not be surprising at all.  At the same time, however, it's not as if it means nothing either (not that that's what you are writing, to be fair).  While it is perhaps wrong of me to think about it in terms of "explanation," it nevertheless does reflect the generally melancholic tone of the noise.

[k.p.g]

Had a very stimulating conversation about Elephant in the Snow yesterday, which inspired me to check it out again.  Part of what has enhanced the listening experience of it for me is the fact that everyone has a different idea of what the record could possibly be about.  I like the 09/11 conspiracy, I like the narrative of STAR being a band with internal strife across releases; it's all greatly stimulating to the brain as you listen to the record.  I personally find it to be a very magical yet lonely record in my relistens; how one could be in the biggest city on Earth and still feel the crushing stillness of a snowy countryside when day becomes night.