Stars Like Fleas

Location:
BROOKLYN, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Other
Site(s):
Label:
Hometapes & Talitres & Praemedia & Hidden Hive
Type:
Indie
STARS LIKE FLEAS DOES NOT READ ANY MYSPACE MAIL -- YOU CANNOT CONTACT US HERE -- starslikefleas[at]yahoodotcom



"A dreamy experimental-pop band that pushes against band-ness…[the] new record has an eerie power.an original and mysterious record" – Ben Ratliff, The New York Times



""[Notable Release – 8/10] dreamy and calamitous…deeply confounding…a journey worth taking"
– Under The Radar



"[with] tracks that drift from beautiful symphonies to discordant pandemonium on a whim, the album stands as a work of mad genius"
– NPR (Second Stage)



"Your first listen to The Ken Burns Effect…is kind of like your first kiss. It's hard to describe in a few words. You feel a little confused, a little elated, a little unsatisfied.The disorientation makes you giddy…you have heard other "experimental bands," [but] this is a new kind of energy."
– Nylon Magazine



"one of the year's most ambitious and daring records…Sometimes, I think The Ken Burns Effect deserves a 10.0. Sometimes, it feels like a 2.0. You might hate it. You might love it. But you need to hear it"
– Pitchfork



".[a] stunningly beautiful.The Ken Burns Effect makes me dream."
– Dusted Magazine



"Here's your new favorite band: their album is under an hour and it swallows universes whole" –Cokemachineglow



"nothing short of astonishing.Moments of hushed meditative intensity erupt into howling storms of futility.Mahlerian in scope and sound" –SOUNDSECT



"Stars Like Fleas is the best band in New York…one of those rarest of albums that completely defies any comparison. They take more risks than is probably advisable, and sometimes their shows flirt with disaster, but more often than not they create something utterly captivating and closer to a religious experience than I'm even comfortable with." –Yer Sweet Chimneys



"one of New York's most sublime and continuously undiscovered bands" –Paper Magazine



"This Brooklyn collective of free-radical networkers…display an uncanny ability to splat together Flaming Lips pop, free-jazz blat, bluegrass, laptop noise, Talk Talk's moody Laughing Stock moves, harp runs, and shape-note singing. And that's just in five minutes."–Village Voice



"As if being one of the most fascinating live bands in New York wasn't enough, Stars Like Fleas' The Ken Burns Effect takes the group's aesthetic-weird, wondrous, naïve, bewildering-and wrangled it into a full-length that finally does overdue justice to their immense promise…one of those rare records that you want to hear on headphones to uncover each nook and cranny of its myriad contours. It's a record that you want to live in." –Todd Burns (Editor - Stylus Magazine, Village Voice, eMusic)



"a sprawling mix of folk, Americana, free improv…the band can transform a dingy room into something as gorgeous and sweeping as the Great Plains" –New York Press
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