I'm going to brag for a second. I hear a lot of records and I work with a lot of different promotional companies where I get access to music that most of you will never hear. Some of it is awesome. Some of it is not my thing, and some of it is pure in a way that can't be explained.

I've heard the new record by Starless, and it falls squarely in the last category. Sure, there are hints of things we've heard in the past, but the band doesn't rest on the laurels of its clear influences. Instead, it twists and turns and pulls and evokes something so clearly powerful and spiritual that there's no way you can deny it.

I will tell you that their new record is an absolute 100% must buy for any discriminating listener who is seeking to not only have their mind blown but be taken to a new planet that doesn't care about you, because it drops you off by yourself, where it mesmerizes you so you forget where you are, where it ultimately destroys you while you sleep.

The word special is an understatement.

This is my curious conversation with the entire band, the Chicago based Starless, on the Rockstar Superhero Podcast.

2:00 The germination of musical ideas
6:00 The roles of song arrangement
9:30 Jon and Jessie start the process
12:00 Rehearsal tapes help execute
15:30 Quinn is a drummer who wanted it
18:45 Slowcore and sadcore via Low
21:00 The changes between albums one and two
27:00 The decimation of the Helvetii
31:30 Pendulum opens the album well
35:00 Album written before COVID
38:00 Starless does cover songs too
41:00 My children remember Starless songs
44:00 Feedback on the record
48:30 Touring is so cost prohibitive
51:40 Preaching the gospel of Starless

The opening music, Pendulum, is provided by Starless, All Rights Reserved, copyright 2021.

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