Tired, So Starry

The Stars Of The Lid

are another group I must heartily recommend as being excellent therapy for our rushed, stressed, postmodern lives. These folks give a whole new meaning to the idea of ambient, bringing music almost to a standstill, if that were possible. But the beauty of their sound in combination of the slow, snail's pace progression of their compositions ("songs" just seems like the wrong word) just want to take you to the edge of ecstasy or on the verge of tears, depending on the mood. The Stars Of The Lid pause on every note, linger on every cadence, contemplate every chord in their entirety, and squeeze all the beauty out of these, until you're left in nothing but a kind of trance. When you come out of it you feel somehow refreshed and invigorated. This one here is one of their shorter pieces.