Get Out Friday: Stars @ the Showbox

It was four years ago that we'd started falling in love with the woman who would one day be our wife. It was about that same time that she'd lent us an album called Night Songs by a band called Stars. And if memory serves us with any amount of clarity, our devoted attention to that album became one of the many things which cemented our infatuation with this woman.

Night Songs (Stars' first LP) was a collection of sad and beautiful pop songs, the likes of which we'd never heard before. Its melancholy lyrics and subdued pop hooks provided a sense of dour reflection on the past, hand in hand with a hopeful outlook for the future.

Stars have since put out three more albums (our personal favorite being 2004's Set Yourself on Fire), including this year's In Our Bedroom after the War, which garnered a 7.4 from Pitchfork -- a score which Stars frontman Torquil Campbell took issue with in a big, however childish way. Welcome to "new media", Campbell.

Doors at 8pm // Showbox (at the market) // $16adv, $18dos // All ages