For Stars, romance is always ridiculous. Each of the Canadian pop quintet’s four previous albums have mixed self-consciously overblown metaphors—with love manifesting itself as battles, resurrections, and blazes—and curiously specific scenes from relationship-focused procedural dramas. And so while The Five Ghosts never fully lets on whether its tales of haunting are meant to be taken as literal ghost stories, it does provide characters who are lost in their own far-out fantasies. The gravity-free haze of “The Last Song Ever Written,” in particular, plays almost as farce, with Torquil Campbell assuring us of various finalities—“This is the last time you’re gonna lose someone, after this it’s you and your friends”—on an album full of examples of how love and hurt never end, even in death.