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Stellastarr*: Islington Academy, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 26 November 2003

TO HEAR THE GOTHY GUSHINGS of the current intake of New York art-rockers, you'd think the decade that inspires them, the 80s, began and ended with Joy Division and the Cure. Like Interpol and the Rapture, the Brooklyn-based Stellastarr* (omit the asterisk at your peril, apparently) are indebted to these bands.

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