Stars of Track and Field - A Time For Lions (2009)

Genre : Indie,Rock,Pop,Alternative,Electronica HMM!!
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Tracklist

1. Racing Lights
2. End of All Time
3. The Breaking of Waves
4. Now You Lift Your Eyes to the Sun
5. In Bright Fire
6. Peeling Away
7. Through the Static
8. Safety in Numbers
9. The Aviator
10. The Stranger
11. Sunrise Ends

What began as an homage to Belle And Sebastian (who coined the song from which this band took their name) has grown into something more. The Portland, Oregon, trio Stars of Track and Field exchanged their fey chamber pop for a different texture when their bassist departed prior to their second release, 2006's 'Centuries Before Love And War'. Gilded with electronics of all sorts, their new full-length, 'A Time For Lions', arrives as a fully realized creature. "The Aviator" casts a ghostly visage built from jangling guitars and Kevin Calaba's willowy falsetto, while "The Breaking of Waves" crashes on shore over a surf of keyboards tinkling like a steady flow of raindrops, building ripples upon ripples. It's pretty evocative stuff swept up in the gossamer down of the arrangements and tugged by the melancholy lyrical undertow. 'A Time for Lions', produced by John King of the Dust Brothers (Beastie Boys, Beck, Linkin Park, Carlos Santana) along with Stars of Track and Field, builds on the solid foundation that the band has already created with past releases, yet brings an evolved sound, tempo, and collection of songs that are arguably the band’s best pieces to date, featuring the anthemic “Racing Lights”, the hauntingly sparse and dark “Now You Lift Your Eyes to the Sun” and the passionate songscape of “In Bright Fire”.