"Ageless Beauty" was the fifth single released by the

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

indie pop Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with a DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and s ...

group

Stars A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of ...

. It was the first single from the album '' Set Yourself on Fire''. ''The Boston Globe'' correspondent Bobby Hankinson considered the single to be a "pop gem" in a 2006 concert review; ''Tampa Bay Times'' correspondent Brian Orloff shared a similar view, considering the song "a perfect gem of an indie rock tune." "Ageless Beauty" was considered by ''The Independent'' to be "perhaps Stars' loveliest song".

Musicianship

Speaking of "Ageless Beauty", ''The News and Observer'' noted the single for its "odd...combination of drop-dead-gorgeous tune and ugly words...that you've ever heard," lauding its "juxtaposition" that is "perfectly" repeated "again and again throughout the album."

References

2005 songs Stars (Canadian band) songs {{2000s-pop-song-stub