RETROSPECTIVE: Stars "Set Yourself On Fire"

Stars "Set Yourself On Fire" (2005)
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Label: Arts and Crafts
Producer: Tom McFall & Stars
Tracks: 13 (check: Amazon)

i may be a bit late, but i've only just recently fully realised of this phenomenon of smooth, sultry, drawly, charmingly lazy and magical voices of girl vocalists like zero7's sia, sarah blasko, stereolab's laetitia sadier and lisa mitchell. is this new, or just rare, or what?! please post me a comment if you know of an artist or a band with a vocalist with a voice like these angelic females

adding to the ultra-cool 'folk slash indie slash electronic slash post-rock' genre, "Set Yourself On Fire" quickly makes it to my same good book full of artists in the style of The Postal Service, Stereolab, Sigur Rós, and Death Cab For Cutie and Sigur Ros after a few listens.

rather eclectic with a fair collection of acoustic and electronic drums, ocassional sample manipulations, your standard guitars, bass guitars and keyboards programmings; i'm sure Tom McFall (The Kills) had more fun on this project then the former one. and i dont know who exactly wrote what in this album, but the lyrics are witchingly literal on some tracks - something that sets this band apart from others in its class, for me.

other things worth mentioning, orchestrations seems to be hand in hand like suburban teenagers and weed, in post-rock song arrangements today and it does even more on this record. poppish chord progressions and cheesy synth presets dominate this album, and it's always a good thing. if i wasnt such a (new) fan of this *female vocal timbre* phenomenon, i wouldnt complain so much of the fact that there's not enough of Amy Millan's magical vocals on here. my next girlfriend's gonna be a lady with such vocals. there. you heard it here first.