“The Dears aren’t fucking around,” says Lightburn. Just by being at it for so long, The Dears are able to work faster and more efficiently than most ensembles, which is especially important when you have two kids (and when the business is less remunerative than ever). There’s also a string section, a cameo from fellow Montrealer Sam Roberts (who was also on No Cities Left), and saxophone from both Canadian Alex Francoeur and the E Street Band’s Jake Clemons (on the rattling “Stille Lost”). On Lovers Rock, Lightburn (vocals, guitar, “other”) and Yanchak (vocals, piano) are joined by longtime drummer Jeff "Looch" Luciani, who's been in the fold since 2011’s Degeneration Street, and two holdovers from Lightburn's solo record, Steve Raegele (guitar) and Rémi-Jean LeBlanc (bass). Every record that we make, there's a ton of songs.” “For me it’s like an onslaught of ideas and sounds, and then I can't keep up half the time. But she rarely lacks for inspiration, and as Yanchak says, “the band is never off.” “For us, the tank is never empty,” he explains. Lightburn was still touring his 2019 solo record Hear Me Out as work began on Lovers Rock. I Know What You're Thinking And It's Awful 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.Ġ2. There are also certain sonic and aesthetic parameters, within which the music can be both unsettlingly experimental and impossibly lush: part Bacharach, part Krautrock. 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. We don't know what's going to happen next.’ Now it’s a doom that's within our grasp. Around 2001, it felt like, ‘We have no control. “You could go straight from Lovers Rock to No Cities Left and it’s like they're interlocked.
There’s a direct line between the sort of doominess of No Cities Left and this album,” says Lightburn. Nearly two decades later, as Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak began work on Lovers Rock, the world’s mood felt eerily similar.
The Dears’ 2003 breakthrough album No Cities Left was a crepuscular, romantic soundtrack to uncertain times. The band will preview Lovers Rock across twelve April shows in Europe and the UK before performing the album in select North American cities between May and July. They’ve released the album’s first single “The Worst In Us” which you can hear below. Montréal stalwarts The Dears have announced the release of their eighth studio album Lovers Rock on May 15 via Dangerbird Records.
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