The Dears - Degeneration Street (Dangerbird)
Steve Lamacq once said of Pulp ’s ‘Common People’ that its success was partly owed to “everyone desperately wanting them to have a hit”. He could dust off those words again when describing Canada’s long-toiling, merry-go-round band of...
The Dears
Forced to sit out Britpop 2 on account of being, erm, Canadian, The Dears are clearly as perplexed as room service at the Savoy following a request from David Gest for ‘Vaginica Semen’. The solution? A stadium-hungry anthem to alienation...
The Dears: Ticket To Immortality
We don’t like it when bands progress, it makes our jobs far harder. Imagine our horror then as we slipped the new Dears single on, expecting to find another lost Smiths gem, only to be confronted by something not only fresh, but ambitious and...
The Dears: ICA, London, Monday, June 26
Hey, it’s The Dears! Remember them? Six-strong Montreal miserablists? Purveyors of irresistibly doomy yet utterly romantic pop? Blur fanatics and, following his seal-clubbing boycott, Canada’s Morrissey methadone? Well, after a year’s...
The Dears : No Cities Left
In the grim, grey, lumpen dark ages of dadrock – a depressing time when chest-beating, testosterone-charged, regressive macho-bloke idiocy was the norm, blokes in bands were indistinguishable from blokes at the football, and everyone wore parkas...
