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Montréal stalwarts The Dears release their eighth studio album Lovers Rock via Dangerbird Dears 2003 breakthrough album No Cities Left was a crepuscular, romantic soundtrack to uncertain times. 9/11. War. The looming economic crisis. Nearly two decades later, as Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak began work on Lovers Rock, the worlds mood felt eerily similarTheres a direct line between the sort of doominess of No Cities Left and this album, says Lightburn. You could go straight from Lovers Rock to No Cities Left and its like they’re interlocked. But it’s a different kind of doom. Around 2001, it felt like, We have no control. We don’t know what’s going to happen next. Now its a doom that’s within our grasp. Its in the air. Its between us. But we do nothing about The Dears have always made apocalyptic love songs for an existential crisis, there are also other constants, starting, of course, with the bands two core members for two decades: Lightburn and Yanchak. There are also certain sonic and aesthetic parameters, within which the music can be both unsettlingly experimental and impossibly lush: part Bacharach, part Krautrock. From the anthemic anger and driving resignation of Heart of An Animal to the swoony, swerving, epic The Worst In Us, Lovers Rock is the sound of The Dears topping themselves yet again, an accomplishment borne of ambition, hard work, and a strong sense of identity.
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