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Psych-garage-pop from Missoula Montana.

"While many psych groups are led by guitarists, and therefore prone to extended freakouts and jams, the Stars are more of a song-oriented affair. Like those 1990s hip-hop albums, they thrive on setting an upper-level vocal against a groove.

One of the best songs on the group's new album, "Sleep Eyes 2" that's called "Tamarack," eventually enters into an excellent, rolling Can-like drum rhythm that contrasts nicely with the suddenly sparse guitar and vocal line.

"Sonder" and "Mirror Talk," two tunes that were recorded live, bear more of Roberts' roots, sounding like folk songs (with a touch of screamo), played with rock guitar and drumming.

Elsewhere on the studio tracks, cut at Levitation Recordings in Missoula, there are blusier variations of garage-psych ("Pipe Dream") and more wound-up grooves ("Randy's Desert').

"Pretty Well and Waisted," another standout, uses a minimalist, mechanical drum rhythm surrounded by the swirling guitar-effects and some of Roberts' best melody writing: it's a vaguely trippy folk number about wasting time in a small town, wrapped in fresh production and arrangements.

Like "Tamarack," it's a fresh variation on psych-garage, showing the further they push it, the better they sound." - Excerpt from the Missoulian newspaper

Listen then buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTV5DGaBq4&t=195s