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WEBSITE: www.starsailor.net
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For a band often lambasted as shrinking violets, Starsailor have kept some pretty loose and unexpected company since they announced their arrival in 2001 with the majestic 'Love Is Here.'
Then, as 19 year olds straight out of music college in Wigan, they found themselves hurled into the world of Heavenly Recordings - a label notorious for The Social, the good times and being friends with Primal Scream, Happy Mondays and The Charlatans. It was the legendary DJ Andrew Weatherall that provided their first remix. The band might have been signed by EMI, but it was Heavenly's founder, the mercurial Jeff Barrett, that A+R'ed them through their first two wildly successful albums. Indeed, the second of those - 2004's 'Silence Is Easy' - saw them become the last band to record with production genius and careless gun user Phil Spector. Not the kind of company you suspect that their supposed peers – Snow Patrol, Keane et al - would ever keep.
And to bring things right up to date, their new album and first for Virgin, 'All The Plans' (which incidentally is a triumphant rediscovery of the over-arching ambition and raw emotional power that made them such a special band in the first place), featured a recording session with notorious quiet man of rock Ronnie Wood. What might also come as a shock to some people is that along the way the band have sold over three million albums around the world and are one of the few British bands to have made it to the fourth album of their deal. Ever get the feeling you might have got the wrong end of the stick about them? If so, maybe now’s the time to reassess.
(Quelle: Homepage Starsailor)
FORMAT: CD
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