For Stars

Chock full of yearning indie rock, For Stars' 3rd album makes for a languid listen that manipulates pretty noise almost as well as it does the heartstrings. Flittering blips rub up against acoustic dirges to create a modern psychedelic backdrop. Consider it therapy for those with a case of post-modern heartbreak blues.

For whatever reason -- credit the terminal fog or generous bartenders --something about
San Francisco breeds cinematic, poetic and bleary-eyed slow rock outfits. First came Mark
Eitzel's cocktail crooning in the American Music Club then the unnervingly revelatory Mark
Kozelek and his Red House Painters and now Carlos Forster and the For Stars complete the
Bay Area triumvirate of brooding introspectors. The band's third full-length is a... More >