Starflyer 59
Leave Here A Stranger
Play Leave Here A Stranger
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MOG Editorial Review
After spending most of his career as a Christian rock's only shoegazer, Starflyer 59's principal member, Jason Martin, began to embrace folksy pop on this 2001 release. While there are still plenty of dreamy, atmospheric elements, Martin found a new knack for hooks on songs like "This I Don't Need." What's more, the singer-songwriter began to more aggressively address the many moods and trials that come with his religion.
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AMG Review of Leave Here a Stranger
Andy Hinds
All Music GuideStarflyer 59's dreamy, introverted pop seems to channel the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Nick Drake as much as the English shoegazer groups of the early '90s to which they're usually compared. Curiously recorded and mixed in mono, Leave Here a Stranger is an atmospheric collection of beautifully languid melodies and lyrics that repeatedly use music as a metaphor for life. Mood, not variety, is the name of the game here, and the album plays like one long song, but for the right moment, Leave Here a Stranger is perfect.









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