The Ken Burns Effect, by Stars Like Fleas

The Ken Burns Effect

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1.	Hoax Head 01:26	buy track
2.	Karma's Hoax 06:07	buy track
3.	I Was Only Dancing 05:11	buy track
4.	Falstaff 06:20	buy track
5.	Early Riser 03:31	buy track
6.	Berbers in Tennis Shoes 02:51	buy track
7.	Toast Siren 06:11	buy track
8.	See For The Woods 03:53	buy track
9.	You Are My Memoir 04:24	buy track
10.	Some Nettles 13:40	buy track

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• 10-song compact disc
• Layout: Sara Padgett, Adam Heathcott & Stars Like Fleas

"The Ken Burns Effect is one of the year's most ambitious and daring records, blessed, beset and united by the desire to steer clear of indie rock's middle road, to be ambitiously good. It loses and wins big, sometimes in the same song, sometimes in the same verse. But, at the very least, just as you shouldn't pass on a band because of an inane name like Stars Like Fleas, records this cared for shouldn't be skipped because of a rating. 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

"The music of Stars Like Fleas is disjointed, meandering, chaotic, and wonderfully unique. The group's second full-length release, The Ken Burns Effect, is a gorgeous jaunt through experimental orchestral pop that is as engaging as it is utterly confusing. The record seems at times aimless and at other times perfectly composed, if insanely so. With a wealth of instruments (at the album's recording the group was a 12-piece collective) that clash as often as they harmonize, and tracks that drift from beautiful symphonies to discordant pandemonium on a whim, the album plays like a work of mad genius. Stars Like Fleas have created a sound that, though certainly not easily digestible, is extremely rich." - NPR

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released June 3, 2008

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Stars Like Fleas Brooklyn, New York

Stars Like Fleas was a Brooklyn band formed by Shannon Fields & Montgomery Knott in the winter of 1998, & active through 2009. Frequently compared to This Heat, later Talk Talk and Robert Wyatt. They were a key fixture of the early Williamsburg music/art scene, alongside Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Excepter, Black Dice, GGD, & Akron/Family, & launched a few music careers ... more

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