New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (July 2013)
I stopped by Glasslands on a recent evening after work and saw a good show put on by Brooklyn band "Desert Stars". Was it shoegaze? Was it psych? Was it pop? Maybe it was a blend somewhere of all three. There aren't that many people out there doing this type of sound.
And the band also has five members, which is also a little unusual. Here is an excerpt from the band's page that tells the background story.
Desert Stars is a 5-piece band from Brooklyn, New York formed October 2008. Built on the creative output of classically-trained violinist Janelle Best, the band dispatches its own brand of shoe-gaze psych-pop with intricately-layered instrumentation, lush harmonies and atmospheric guitar topped by Best’s dreamy tenor. The effect is reminiscent of the album we only wish Phil Spector had produced for The Jesus and Mary Chain: infectiously melodic, pop-eccentric, and deliciously lo-fi.
The band’s origins weren’t particularly auspicious: front-woman Best was going through a major life change and came across a keyboard in the trash. Locking herself in her room for three months, she started composing what would become Desert Stars’ first songs. Friends, many with minimal musical background, came over and, compelled by the material, began to play.
Three years later, Best’s outfit has evolved to include Gregg Giuffre, Eric Altesleben, Ricardo Dengler, and Melanie Moser.
The band has come out with a new album. "Habit Shackles" was released just this past July. Here is a sample of a track from the album. This is "Normal Man" :::
If you'd like to hear more of their sounds, here is the click ::: Desert Stars (CLICK HERE)
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