You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Stars is a band from Toronto who have been making music together since 2000.
Their seventh album was released in October 2014.
For this episode, I spoke to several members of the band, singer Amy Milan over the phone,
and to Evan and Patty in their studio in Toronto, along with their co-producer Liam O'Neill.
Coming up, they'll talk about the inspiration for the phrase No One Is Lost,
which is the title of this song, as well as the album.
And you'll hear the original version of the chorus, one that they wrote,
recorded, mixed, and finished, but then ended up changing completely.
My name is Evan Cranley.
I'm in Stars.
I play bass and synth.
I'm Paddy McGee.
I play drums.
And this is Liam O'Neill.
I engineered and produced this with these guys.
Even though this track is the last on the record, it was the first one we started.
The first...