THE DEARS
NEW ALBUM
‘LOVERS ROCK’
OUT 15TH MAY ON DANGERBIRD RECORDS
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RESCHEDULED UK LIVE DATES
Montréal stalwarts The Dears have announced the release of their eighth studio album Lovers Rock on May 15 via Dangerbird Records. They’ve released the album’s first single “The Worst In Us” — share via YouTube. The band will tour Lovers Rock across twelve April shows in Europe and the UK, view rescheduled UK dates below.
The 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 world’s mood felt eerily similar
There’s 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 it’s 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 it’s a doom that's within our grasp. It’s in the air. It’s between us. But we do nothing about it.”
If The Dears have always made apocalyptic love songs for an existential crisis, there are also other constants, starting, of course, with the band’s 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.
Rescheduled UK Tour Dates:
THU 19 NOV – Cambridge, UK @ Portland Arms
SAT 21 NOV – Glasgow, UK @ Drygate Theatre
SUN 22 NOV – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
MON 23 NOV – Bristol, UK @ Exchange
TUE 24 NOV – London, UK @ The Garage
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