Heart (Stars album)

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Heart
Studio album by Stars
Released	February 11, 2003
Recorded	2001-2002
Genre	Indie pop, indie rock
Length	47:53
Label	Paper Bag Records (Canada) Arts & Crafts (U.S.)
Producer	Stars
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (8.4/10) 8/15/2003
Stars chronology
Dead Child Stars (2003) Heart (2003) Set Yourself On Fire (2004)

Heart is an album by the Canadian indie rock band Stars, released on Paper Bag Records in Canada and on Arts & Crafts in the USA.

The album features three regional covers; the Canadian cover features a man embracing a woman resting on his lap, the US cover features a billboard with a girl's eyes gazing onward and the European cover features three girls spying out of a porthole.

The album was originally released with a bonus promotional sampler of acts with current releases on Paper Bag, including Matthew Barber, Hawaii, The FemBots and Uncut. Two tracks from Heart were repeated on the sampler, along with a non-album bonus track, "Timeless".

The US release includes a hidden bonus track, a live version of "The Comeback", originally taken from the 2001 EP of the same name.

Videos for the songs "Elevator Love Letter" and "Look Up" were shot to promote this album.

The track "Look Up" uses an english horn solo from the beginning of the third movement of Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz.

The track "The Woods" contains quotes from the movie Grey Gardens, the famed cult-classic documentary from 1975.

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This album was recorded in the bedroom of keyboard player Chris Seligman on Avenue Mont-Royal in Montreal.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Stars.

1. "What the Snowman Learned About Love" – 5:15
2. "Elevator Love Letter" – 4:03
3. "Heart" – 5:55
4. "The Woods" – 2:44
5. "Death to Death" – 4:05
6. "The Vanishing" – 4:37
7. "Romantic Comedy" – 4:20
8. "Time Can Never Kill the True Heart" – 4:58
9. "Look Up" – 4:18
10. "Life Effect" – 3:14
11. "Don't Be Afraid to Sing" – 4:24

v • d • e Stars Torquil Campbell | Amy Millan | Evan Cranley | Chris Seligman | Pat McGee Former members Steve Ramsay | Emily Haines | James Shaw Studio albums Nightsongs (2001) | Heart (2002) | Set Yourself on Fire (2004) | In Our Bedroom after the War (2007) Other albums Do You Trust Your Friends? (2007) EPs A Lot of Little Lies for the Sake of One Big Truth (2000) | The Comeback (2001) | Dead Child Stars (2002) Singles "The Stars Are Out Tonight" (2001) | "My Radio" (2003) | "Elevator Love Letter" (2003) | "Petite Mort" (2004) | "Ageless Beauty" (2004) | "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" (2005) | "It's Alchemy!" (2005) | "Take Me to the Riot" (2007) Record labels Le Grand Magistery | Paper Bag Records | Setanta Records | Arts & Crafts | City Slang Records Related articles Memphis | Big Rude Jake | Broken Social Scene