En concert le 16 janvier 2015 à La Flèche d'Or

STARS have always made records that wear the makers’ hearts on their sleeves and provide a shoulder for their fans to cry on. STARS return with another cherished journal entry, their seventh studio album, No One Is Lost.

Like their celestial namesake, STARS only come out at night, and lead track “From The Night” available today, revels in the chances you take and the loves you make or break on any given evening. “I always find it so moving and beautiful to watch people have their nights out. There’s something so heartbreaking about it. People have jobs that they have to get up for, jobs they hate, and they live for the weekend; they live for these moments. And they put everything they have into it,” infers lead singer/songwriter Torquil Campbell.

For No One Is Lost, STARS craved autonomy, and serendipitously inherited a Mile End rehearsal space last December above the now defunct, Royal Phoenix nightclub in Montreal was the answer. They built a functional studio space from scratch, and began recording with long-time friend Liam O’Neil (Metric, The Stills) producing. And then the nightclub (and life) crept in.

As lead vocalist/guitarist Amy Millan admits, the band initially approached its new album from a place of relative stability. “We’ve always had so many things defining every album, whether it was the band going through a difficult emotional turmoil, Torq’s father passing away, or us having children. And now it’s like: You know what? We’re pretty good. This is one of the best times of our lives.” Then the unexpected, blindsiding, euphoric and celebratory bits of life happened, and STARS reacted and wrote to it all.

Title-track, “No One Is Lost” co-produced and mixed by JUNO award-winning producer Jimmy Shaw features signature soaring Millan vocal beauty holding down the chorus and builds to a euphoric house banger that distills all the hope, fear, joy, sadness, and sex in the band’s songbook into a pair of unshakeable mantras: “put your hands up because everybody dies / put your hands up if you know you’re going to lose.”

“This record’s called No One Is Lost because that is a fucking lie,” says Torquil. “We are all lost, we are all going to lose this game and, as you get older, you lose people more and more. I just wanted to close my eyes and jump and hope that was true. Life is loss, love is loss. And loving people is about accepting that you’re going to have to say goodbye to them. And that’s why it’s fucking brave. That’s Stars’ ethos: this life is very heartbreaking and sad… so let’s get completely fucking arseholed and listen to some Dionne Warwick.”

See STARS on tour, playing a few select shows in Canada including XFest Calgary (Aug 30), Sonic Boom in Edmonton (Aug 31) and Riot Fest in Toronto (September 7). They will tour in the U.S. with Hey Rosetta! this November. All dates noted below.

STARS is Amy Millan, Evan Cranley, Patrick McGee, Chris Seligman and Torquil Campbell, with
Chris McCarron.

NO ONE IS LOST TRACK LIST
1. From The Night
2. This Is The Last Time
3. Your Keep Coming Up
4. Turn It Up
5. No Better Place
6. What Is To Be Done
7. Trap Door
8. Are You OK?
9. A Stranger In Stars
10. Look Away
11. No One Is Lost

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