The Dears
Missiles

If the Dears sound a little deflated on this, their fourth full-length offering, they certainly have that right. The creation of Missiles coincided wi...

It’s always futile to wish that a band would return to an old sound, but especially so in the Dears’ case. The group that made 2000’s secret classic E...

Missiles, as presented by The Dears, is a fifty-eight minute opus meant to be listened to entirely at once. Like any other avid enthusiast of the let’...

You can’t help but feel for The Dears. Thirteen years into their career and the Montreal band has already been eclipsed by compatriots Arcade Fire and...

You can’t help but feel for The Dears. Thirteen years into their career and the Montreal band has already been eclipsed by compatriots Arcade Fire and...

?Redemption comes slow,? Murray Lightburn croons on ?Saviour,? but the point has already been made: Over 11 and a half minutes, the track mounts in al...

Around the time Snow Patrol walked out of Brit-pop finishing school and straight onto your sister’s iPod -- say, 2006 -- The Dears decided enough was ...

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Part of the Canadian indie renaissance, having formed in 1995 The Dears released their debut album ‘End Of A Hollywood Bedtime Story’ in 2000. I got i...

Having lost three-quarters of their band during the making of this album, Dears mainstays and husband-and-wife team Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanch...