Stream Stars' new album No One Is Lost and check out our Track-by-Track guide

The very-explicitly-just-and-nothing-but pop fivesome's record is streaming after the in-depth guide. Read about Campbell channelling Kenny Rogers during sex, vomiting cider on designer clothes and musings on death and life's value.

From The Night
"This is one of those songs where what ends up forming the core of the tune is an idea that started out as a joke. This happens quite often, that something I try vocally to amuse myself actually kind of works, and so we start to follow it down the road. The verses were hard. At first they were very florid and 'Stars-y' and ultimately we stripped everything away from them and gave the vocal time to breathe... and I think it worked quite well. It's about the night. Duh."

This Is The Last Time
"We wrote this for a movie. Unsurprisingly, like every other movie we have written something for, they went with something else. We loved the song and precision and its melody so we used it! Fuck Hollywood!"

You Keep Coming Up
"I really love this song, because it is so odd. I found the music so interesting and so strange when I first heard it, and all I could think about was how strange music is as a thing - just a series of tones and rhythms that so abstract, and yet such a part of our daily mundane lives. This song is about that - how our lives in Stars have been defined by pursuing these strange equations, and about how we aim to please the listener; in fact, we're almost obsessed with it. We aren't the kind of band that do it for ourselves - we do it for you. Whether you want us to or not."

Turn It Up
"For a while, in their endless attempt to fit our band into an indie-rock sub category, people were calling us shoegaze; along with dream pop, swoon pop, synth pop, indie pop, bedroom pop, misery pop and shit pop. None of them quite fit, do they? this is one of our shoegaze songs, but it's a bit swoon pop too cause there's kids singing on it (our kids, some of them). It's about the first day of school, and finding the right people to smoke weed with. By the way: we're a pop band, full stop. If you're a music journalist A) good luck and B) stop coming up with stupid names for pop music."

No Better Place
"One of my favourite songs on the record. If you've ever wondered what it would be like if you crossed Grease with Silence Of The Lambs, this is a close approximation. I like the key change cause it's just blatant showing off, a move which has become underrated these days. If you can play as well as the guys in this band can, you're entitled to a little showing off every now and again, don't you think? I don't like the final note of this song; but we couldn't figure out what else to do. Sorry about that..."

What Is To Be Done?
"I resisted having this song on the record because I felt it was very sad and I didn't want to make people sad this time around. But you know, Stars not making people sad is just a wilful abdication of our responsibilities. It's part of our job to make you sad. and I think this song does exactly what it says on the tin. As you get older, you face the terrifying fact that almost nothing is within your control. Hence this very beautiful, but very depressing song. If it's over 15 degrees celsius where you are and the sun is out, I wouldn't bother with this one. Wait for a rainy day."

Trap Door
"This is a rare tune where the demo vocal sung into an SM57 is what we ended up using. I just couldn't get myself as pissed off again as I was when I recorded this vocal. I have a lot of vitriol towards exclusivity. I hate how it works on people to keep them down and make them doubt themselves. I hate how some of us feed off the insecurities and awkwardness of the rest of us to sell us shit we don't need in an attempt to be allowed in to the beautiful people's world. It makes me want to vomit cider all over their designer clothes. This song is me vomiting cider. Enjoy."

Are You Ok?
"How good is Pat McGee at playing the drums? I would argue extremely fucking good indeed and I would offer up this tune as exhibit A. I love the muscularity and precision of the playing on this song, and the lyrics are one of Amy's classics where she says something incredibly private through a song to one of her friends. Takes balls. But she has them. Lady balls, that is."

The Stranger
"I've been reading a lot about Kim Philby lately, the British/Soviet double agent and the golden boy and later black sheep of the English public school class. To be English is to have secrets; to be a stranger; so in a way I guess this song is about me. But it really started with an image of a parachute in the night sky, and it went from there. Murray Lightburn from The Dears plays the guitar on this track, and you could argue that me and him are the darkest fuckers on the Montreal music scene. It's all a bit dark, but quite velvety. Like a nice mug of cocoa with some cyanide in it."

Look Away
"Hands down my personal favourite on the record. I had nothing to do with this song, and it was amazing to walk into the room one day and be played this. It made me love my friends. What can I say about this song? It's a Stars song; it features two characters that have been stumbling through our music for a long time, and I think it is a kitchen sink pop song that will stay in your life. Which to me, is the highest compliment you can pay a song. Also, it features me channeling Kenny Rogers, which up until now i have only attempted when making love. You're welcome."

No One Is Lost
"I will always want to be in the Pet Shop Boys. They are so perfect on so many levels, and one of the things they do best is make dance music that you can also have a good cry too. I think this is a very unexplored and unexploited corner of the pop music galaxy, and this is our contribution to it. We do all die - sorry for mentioning it, but there it is - but while we're here, we convince ourselves that we might be the exception; and that delusion, that lie, is what creates every great night of your life. I'm proud of us all for being able to tell ourselves the lies that matter: we live forever, a song can save you, be drunken always - and I'm proud that I'm still in a band where we are telling those lies and believing in them. I hope you like our record, with all my heart I do; but if you don't... fuck you, you unfeeling bastard!"

Listen to the record below via Spotify.

No One Is Lost is out 3 November on ATO.