Stars - The Five Ghosts

This Montreal-based quintet has made an impact with its dreamy romantic pop and songs about love and death. The band combined those twin themes perfectly on its last album, In Our Bedroom After the War. Here, vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan conjure up a more stripped-down sound of suitably haunted beauty, especially on “Dead Hearts,” “Winter Bones” and the chiming “I Died So I Could Haunt You.” Torquil knows of what he sings: his father, Shakespearean actor Douglas Campbell, died last fall.