Every year a wide swath of the nation’s rock critics singles out one up-and-coming band as the greatest thing since reverb. Last year that distinction fell to a Montreal troupe coyly named the Dears.
After 25 years of making music, The Dears know how to adapt to an altered landscape. Husband and wife Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchek, the core duo of the Montreal, Canada rock band, have ...
Some interviewees reveal nothing of themselves. Not so Murray Lightburn, linchpin of Canadian sextet The Dears. "I have an enormous fear of abandonment," he says, "this thing of wanting to hold on to ...
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's look at more pictures and read less words ...
It may come as a surprise to some, others won't believe it at all, but the Dears don't want to be rock stars. Mainstream affiliations, miles of newsprint and obnoxious aviator shades may suggest ...
"The Dears don't have throwaway tracks," insists longtime keyboardist Natalia Yanchak. "We literally throw those tracks away." Acknowledging her "arrogant" outlook, she says that the Dears' songs are ...
Rare is the band hard to pin down in the 21st century, but The Dears is that rarity. Openly romantic and symphonic yet destabilizing and hypnotic, the Montreal-based brainchild of spouses Murray ...
Montréal’s The Dears are releasing a new album, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!, this Friday on Next Door. Now they have shared its latest single, “Doom Pays,” via a music ...
Murray Lightburn, the self-styled "writer and director" of the cultish Canadian darlings The Dears, does not look like a man upon whose shoulders the worries of the world rest lightly. On stage he's a ...
Montreal group the Dears fits squarely in the current crop of Canadian acts -- bands that, like the breakthrough band Arcade Fire, command the stage with intensity while reaching past pop convention ...
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 Feist to the kind of degree that they’re unlikely ...