Canadian indie vets Stars have announced From Capelton Hill, their ninth album, first in five years, and the followup to 2017's There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light. The band initially tried to assemble the album remotely during the pandemic, but ended up convening at two different Montreal studios and the band's own space and recording it with Marcus Paquin (who's worked on multiple Stars albums and just produced The Weather Station's Ignorance) and The Besnard Lakes' Jace Lasek. It comes out May 27 via Last Gang/MNRK (pre-order).
"I guess what From Capelton Hill means to me is from memory, from the past, from a place that seems permanent but isn’t, and I think that that sense of impermanence is a big part of what’s in the record: realizing that things don’t last forever, and that even the things that I thought would be there forever aren’t going to be," Torquil Campbell said via press release. "Capelton Hill is a place where things in my mind, in my life, they’ve never changed. And yet it will go."