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While a fair amount of songs on his 12 track album released at numerous points throughout 20, prior to this release in May, I have since thoroughly enjoyed this album as a whole, and though not as impactful, soulful and stirring as the band’s Word Label Group debut project in 2015, there’s still a lot of gems to discover with the band’s second full-length offering. It is in this quote above by Chris from a recent Instagram post about the album, that I can appreciate his music all the more, and see the heart and emotion behind a majority of the songs on this collection of 12 tracks. My hope is that you can enjoy these songs in any season of life you might be in and know that on the other side of faith is joy and the life we were meant to live. I’m grateful for each moment and I’m grateful for the journey my family and I have been on in life and how that’s been expressed through these songs. It’s just me being honest about what was happening at the time. I hope that’s what you hear when you listen to these songs.
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The past few years have been full of transition, pain, hurt, redemption, joy, love… full of life. My latest project, BETTER, is simply that… little polaroids of real life told through songs. I’m not sure those exist anymore with the rise of cell phones and technology, but for me, that’s how I feel about my records. The kind my mom used to haul out of the closet when we were kids to show us what life was like before we could remember.
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Songs are like little polaroids in a scrapbook.
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While it is not known whether it is just Chris these days, or whether it’s the full band, Stars Go Dim nevertheless has always the knack to pull in the listener with a poignant melody and a heartfelt moment, and Better is no different.īETTER is finally here! I’ve had many of these songs since early 2017 and have released many 1 by 1 over the last year, but I’m so happy that you can finally hear them in their entirety today. Fast forward to 2019, and we see lead singer Chris Cleveland delivering another project, this time the band’s sophomore label album in Better, comprising of all six songs from their Better EP released in September 2018, alongside a few of their singles released in the first few months of 2019. The band’s self titled label debut is in fact one of my favourites of 2015, and one of the most cohesive albums of 2015, period. Their self titled debut album released in October 2015 digitally and January 2016 physically, that led to many sought-after radio singles like ‘You are Loved’, ‘Walking Like Giants’, their not-that-popular-yet-still-popular-in-Australia ‘Stars’ as well as their retake on hymn ‘Doxology’. Releasing Love Gone Mad and Between Here and Now back in 20 respectively, it was their signing to Word Entertainment at the beginning of 2015 that led to quite possibly one of the biggest label debuts of any new artist of that particular year. This full-time ministry, Stars Go Dim has in fact been under the radar for all these years, that is until a few years ago.
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Now more than 10 years later, Stars Go Dim is much more than just a ‘side project’. Sure the band was making music long before then, in fact, the band itself was birthed way back in 2008, as a side project of a couple of members of Pillar. Stars Go Dim – Better ( Amazon mp3/ iTunes)