Track Listing

1. spies
2. in parallel
3. gossamer days
4. life until now
5. all lovers are blind
6. amherst incident
7. 16 rpm
8. snow day
9. oh, the places you'll go
10. clare grogan's scar

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #386885 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-19
• Number of discs: 1

Review
Slow and drifting beauty that flows almost jazz touched, like soft red-lit lounge as opposed to scattered improve style. Vocals caress and surround, and it sort of reminds me of Spain (the band, not the place). Gossamer is a very good word and actually describes the music and the songs perfectly. The mood is low and dark, but still floating, like you could slip into the clouds at any moment. Like the Coctails, but slower and deeper. Lush but not full, soft, but not empty. Like music that moves through a movie that you remember in your dreams, playing in the flashbacks,the clouded memories of lost loves and that indescribable ache for a perfect moment. - --the big takeover

Review
The aptly named Crushed Stars are the indie pop project of Todd Gautreau and in the past, his music has been very, very quiet. While the ten songs on Gossamer Days could hardly be described as such, they do possess a richness that he had only hinted at previously. That might be in part thanks to the production of Stuart Sikes, who also worked with Cat Power on The Greatest, but it is also reflected in Gautreau s songs, which mange to carefully walk the line between bleak and beautiful. There are hints of Red House Painters and the Clientele, but they are closest in spirit to nearly forgotten Sarah Records band Brighter, who also produced this kind of wonderful melancholy. When it comes to quiet indie pop, Gossamer Days is pretty much as good as it get --exclaim

Review
You won't find a more truthfully evocative Artist - Title pairing, anywhere. Listening to, say, the opening track "Spies," is a little like watching celestial bodies shooting up a hazy night sky, stardust in slow-mo. Like a less enunciated Red House Painters. "Life Until Now," meanwhile, introduces slightly more insistent snares and hi-hats, but by verse two that's milk-coated with warmed, plinking keyboard patterns and texturizing, rising guitars, keeping everything ... very ... dreamy. --stereogum