Word: starsailorã
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Even among indie fans, British rock has fallen at the feet of white-hot American groups like The Strokes and The White Stripes. Fans at Starsailor??s San Francisco stop on the group’s debut U.S. tour drowned out lead singer James Walsh with demands that the band cover The Strokes’ hit single, “Last Nite.” The recent release of Mick Jagger’s album Goddess in the Doorway and the re-release of “My Sweet Lord” following George Harrison?...
Critics have disparaged Starsailor for lacking originality and not challenging the boundaries of modern rock and roll. While such claims are not unfounded, they do not detract from what the group does very well. If Starsailor??s music is rooted firmly in the past, it cannot be denied that the group has made great strides towards mastering—even refining, perhaps—the forms they emulate...
...real beauty of Starsailor??s music is its at times brutal sincerity. The listener cannot help but feel that Walsh’s words are inextricably tied up with his personal experience. Middle-class angst is apparent in songs like “Talk Her Down,” “Alcoholic” and “She Just Wept,” with lines like “Daddy I’ve got nothing left/ My life is good/ My love’s a mess...
Amidst the hoopla surrounding Starsailor??s quick rise to stardom, it is easy to forget that Walsh is only 21 years-old. Starsailor??s future is bright, and, lest the vulturous critics forget, there will be plenty of time for innovation...
...many respects, Coldplay has faced many of the same criticisms as Starsailor??the curse of the suburban middle-class band—but critics cannot take away what the group has already accomplished. Parachutes, the debut album of the foursome who met as students at University College, London, has already won substantial fame in England and the U.S. And rightly so—Parachutes is an album loaded with twisted and complex emotions. It is strikingly simple, even disturbing, because of this raw simplicity. In the group’s first U.S. single, “Yellow...
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