Embed and breakfast man: Stars

So, this is the video for new Stars single, Changes. It has breasts, a vagina and a tail in it, and thus is NSFW:

I'm in two minds about this - it's a lovely piece of work, but having a nubile, naked woman in your video is always questionable in terms of motivation - was the original idea 'a person dancing in a museum' or 'how can we get some tits into the video'? Nobody ever sold fewer records by putting a bit of t&a in the video. And, much faith as I have in Stars, I'm sure I can hear record company staff going 'please, someone, call this controversial, please'.

Also, the prosthetic tail looks like it's in the wrong place.

[Buy: Five Ghosts, the parent album]

Downloadable: Stars

A spot of apparently-not-as-good-as-they-used-to-be stuff from Stars- We Don't Want Your Body for taking away from RCRDLBL.

Stars go out

Filling up the 2008 calendar, Stars have announced a UK tour:

Thursday 24 January – DUBLIN – Tripod
Saturday 26 January – ABERDEEN – Moshulu
Sunday 27 January – GLASGOW – Oran Mor
Monday 28 January – BIRMINGHAM – Barfly
Tuesday 29 January – LONDON – KOKO
Wednesday 30 January – BRISTOL – Thekla Social
Thursday 31 January – MANCHESTER – Academy 3
Saturday 2 February – NOTTINGHAM – Rescue Rooms
Sunday 3 February – SHEFFIELD – Leadmill
Monday 4 February – BRIGHTON – Concorde 2

Stars plug leak

Stars next album, In Our Bedroom After The War, had been due to get a unified release in September. However, somewhere along the line of prereleasing stuff to radio, journalists and passers-by, the record wound up online. Rather than spend time fretting and issuing blood threats, the band have just brought forward the digital download release date. You wonder if there might be some sort of, you know, lesson there.