"I don’t know much about these guys except that they’re seemingly from Adelaide and have at least one really beautiful track in the vein of recent Decoder Ring. After a frantic opening, ‘Closer’ morphs into a contemplative, piano-led number that doesn’t just hinge its success as a post-rock composition on a predictable, impending crescendo, but actually turns the ‘calm before the storm’ into something of a storm itself. " - Review of CLOSER by Matt Hickey, Sept. 2009 (http://whothehell.net/?s=steering+by+stars)
"In the three weeks and two gigs since I first heard this Adelaide four-piece I've found myself transfixed by their hypnotic swirls of guitar, atmospheric drums and undecipherably reverby vocals, like Ed Droste awash in a layer of echo and fuzz." - Walter, Sept. 2009 (http://prosepurple.blogspot.com/2009/09/steering-by-stars.html)
"Steering By Stars. Quite like the name suggests they take you on a journey. To where exactly it's hard to say. Through that proverbial looking glass, through the closing chapters of "2001: A Space Odyssey", or maybe even through to the very depths of the Underworld itself with Orpheus and his lyre. Either way there's a haunting poetry here made no less ironic by the fact you can never understand a single verse Lachlan is "singing" (or more accurately channeling like a seance). It's a poetry and a symphony that finds its real strength not through individual songs (although there's more of those now), but more so in the movements in between, in how they all flow into each other." - Live review by Spoz, Sept. 2009 (http://spoz.blogspot.com/2009/09/steering-by-stars-empire-vagabond.html)
Just had a listen to the new tracks lads......just beautiful. Thanks again for last night, nights like that are what I run the Jade for, good people and great music. Come on record deal!!!I might see youse at the Metro. Mwah mwah Zac ooxx
aaaaah "Blush Response" so THAT's what the goofy xylophone song is called? and wait.. is that you borrowing my Blade Runner joke and recycling it as a song title.. coz that's all kinds of awesome if it is (yes my ego is that overblown! :P )
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