New Music: Stars: "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" (Final Fantasy remix)
As on the original, a voice says, "If you have nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire" at the beginning of this remix. But here it's several female voices, adult women and children. It doesn't have the singular drama of the deep male voice that begins the track on Stars' 2004 album Set Yourself on Fire, but neither does the rest of this mix. Final Fantasy, aka Owen Pallett, went for something subtler: the sharp beating drum is gone, as well as the low cello. A waltzing set of piano chords and a pretty lead piano line replace them. There's also gorgeous violin, of course, and here it alternates between buzzing and vibrating like a hummingbird and drifting back and forth like a loose feather.
[from Do You Trust Your Friends?; out 05/22/07 on Arts & Crafts]