Duplicate all-ages! :: bar with id -- in the past | -based starfucker (strfkr) has received almost as much attention for its not-always accessible moniker as for its immensely accessible dance hooks. but | having flirted briefly with a couple of name changes | the group is now firmly settled on starfucker and so the focus can rightly return to what got people talking in the first place: the quartet’s endlessly catchy | hook-laden pop. and there’s no better place for that conversation to begin than with reptilians | the band’s second album and first with polyvinyl. lyrically | reptilians focuses primarily on death and the end of the world | two intertwined subjects at the forefront of songwriter josh hodges mind following the passing of his grandmother. yet | amazingly | the record manages to be not the slightest bit depressing. in reality | it’s quite the opposite a trait likely attributed to the fact that the band | like british philosopher alan watts (whose lectures are excerpted at various intervals) | believes dea

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• wampire

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all-ages! :: bar with id -- in the past | -based starfucker (strfkr) has received almost as much attention for its not-always accessible moniker as for its immensely accessible dance hooks. but | having flirted briefly with a couple of name changes | the group is now firmly settled on starfucker and so the focus can rightly return to what got people talking in the first place: the quartet’s endlessly catchy | hook-laden pop. and there’s no better place for that conversation to begin than with reptilians | the band’s second album and first with polyvinyl. lyrically | reptilians focuses primarily on death and the end of the world | two intertwined subjects at the forefront of songwriter josh hodges mind following the passing of his grandmother. yet | amazingly | the record manages to be not the slightest bit depressing. in reality | it’s quite the opposite a trait likely attributed to the fact that the band | like british philosopher alan watts (whose lectures are excerpted at various intervals) | believes dea

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