Stars Live in Jakarta
opening act: Scaller
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Canadian indie-pop icons, Stars, are finally heading to Jakarta, Indonesia for their first live performance on our shores.
Like their celestial namesake, Stars only come out at night. Their debut of intimate synth-pop whispers was released titled Nightsongs, but really, any of the increasingly assertive and sonically elaborate records they’ve released since could be named that. Whether between the sheets or on the streets, the nighttime is when the most pivotal moments of your life play out: the drunken dusk-to-dawn hangs through which eternal friendships are forged; the knowing glance across the dancefloor that leads to exchanged phone numbers, that ominous 3 a.m. phone call from the hospital; the decision to turn a new leaf that can only come when you’ve spent five despairing hours staring at a ceiling fan. These are the worlds that Stars songs inhabit, to show us that, even in our most vulnerable and naked states, we are never truly alone.
Stars’ albums have always served as thermochromic barometers of their makers’ emotional well-being, be it the romantic upheaval of 2003’s Heart and 2004’s Set Yourself On Fire, the newsticker-triggered discontent of 2007’s In Our Bedroom After the War, the downcast elegies of 2010’s The Five Ghosts (a requiem for singer Torquil Campbell’s father, who passed away during the album’s creation), or the rejuvenation of 2012’s The North (recorded while inter-band couple Amy Millan and Evan Cranley were in the throes of new parenthood).
For their seventh studio record, No One Is Lost, the band decided to scratch the seven-album itch by shaping their own environment by creating a studio hideaway that allowed them to function as a self-contained unit free of external pressures, yet wound up being greatly shaped by its surrounding environment.
Stars’ profound pop tunes of life, love and loss are sure to make your evening much brighter. The band will perform an intimate live set for their Indonesian fans on Friday, 12 February 2016 at the stunning Soehanna Hall, located strategically The Energy Building SCBD Jakarta.
