<img class="alignleft  wp-image-12186" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tsd-press-photo-300x300.jpg" alt="The Star Department" width="160" height="160" />At the heart of <a title="The Star Department" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-star-department/">The Star Department</a>'s superb debut album <a title="Pea Green Boat" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/the-star-department/"><em>The Pea Green Boat</em></a> lies 'Stitches and Sleeves'. The track is bound together by a heartbreaking guitar line, a silvery waltz-time figure that sends shivers up the spine. Combined with shuffling drums, a muted yet ominous horn section, and Justin Commins vulnerable, almost defeated vocal, the song radiates melancholic pop magic.
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