FOR STARS
SPECTATORS
Release Date: 26th Mar, 2001Cat No: DISCO0103
Format: CDS
SPECTATORS - ONE TO WATCH
From the sprawling urban metropolis that is San Francisco comes a band utterly at odds with their hectic surroundings. They are called For Stars and 'Spectators', their first release in the UK, is one of the most beautifully sparse and fragile songs you will ever hear.
Formed around the song writing talent of Carlos Forster, For Stars perfectly convey the cold, bleak sadness that comes from staring too long at the cosmos. Influenced by the likes of Low, Galaxie 500, Red House Painters and Brian Eno, as well as neighbours and sometime collaborators Beulah, 'Spectators' muses on the feelings of awe experienced watching something so great it almost exists beyond your comprehension.
'Spectators' is taken from For Stars' second album, 'Windows For Stars', which was received with quiet euphoria by the American underground music press. Alternative Press described their gently incandescent folk-pop as "An American Belle & Sebastian". While sharing similarly melancholy moods with Scotland's finest, For Stars are lacking that band's caustic cynicism, preferring a sense of serenity and amazement that takes them beyond the earthly constraints of so much new acoustic music.