New music from The Dears!
They're consistently excellent album after album, so Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! coming out in November has me excited. The first two tracks are hopeful, glorious songs.
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The Dears – “Is This What You Really Want?”
The Dears' Lovers Rock album is stellar straight through, but I took a bit longer to warm to "Is This What You Really Want?" Now I enjoy it just as much as the handful of songs that I fell in love with on first listen.
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/07/01/the-dears-is-this-what-you-really-want/
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The Dears – “I Know What You’re Thinking and It’s Awful”
As the tracks keep coming from the upcoming Lovers Rock album from The Dears, I'm more and more excited. "I Know What You're Thinking and It's Awful" is a stunning song, and immediately taking up a lot of space in my head.
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/04/29/the-dears-i-know-what-youre-thinking-and-its-awful/
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The Dears – “Heart Of An Animal”
The fishman in this video threw me at first, but this song is now indelibly mapped onto my brain and is constantly, wonderfully emerging like the best earworms do.
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/04/18/the-dears-heart-of-an-animal/
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The Dears – “I Used To Pray For The Heavens To Fall”
I've been listening to The Dears a lot as the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, and I lot of their songs seem perfectly suited to these days. "I Used To Pray For The Heavens To Fall" is particularly poignant today.
https://apollolemmon.com/2020/03/29/the-dears-i-used-to-pray-for-the-heavens-to-fall/
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The Dears – Gang of Losers
The Dears' Gang of Losers has been a very special album to me for a long time and it's one of my desert island listens. Each song from beginning to end is powerful and can become an earworm very easily.
While my wife was in labour this past weekend the songs were cycling through my head in a way they hadn't for a while. As we waited for Celestine to be born, they were a com
https://apollolemmon.com/2019/05/01/the-dears-gang-of-losers/