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No Cities Left (Import) (CD)

By: The Dears (Artist)

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The Dears Artist Snapshot:

Montreal-based indie outfit the Dears' emotive take on classic U.K. indie music struggled to make an impact outside of their native Canada until the label Bella Union--run by ex-Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie--released their second album, NO CITIES LEFT, in 2004. The album earned favorable comparisons to Blur, Joy Division, and particularly the Smiths. As a result, the band was invited to support their idol, Morrissey, on his 2006 tour. Later that year the Dears released their third album, GANG OF LOSERS, to critical acclaim. The album revealed a broadening of their sonic palette, with greater emphasis given to synthesizers and electronic textures.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for No Cities Left (Import) (CD) Album By The Dears (Artist)
1   We Can Have It - (studio)  
2   Who Are You Defenders Of The Universe - (studio)  
3   Lost In The Plot - (studio)  
4   Second Part - (studio)  
5   Don't Lose The Faith - (studio)  
6   Expect The Worst - (studio)  
7   Pinned Together, Falling Apart - (studio)  
8   Never Destroy Us - (studio)  
9   Warm & Sunny Days - (studio)  
10   Death Of All The Romance - (studio)  
11   Postcard From Purgatory - (studio)  
12   No Cities Left - (studio)  
13   Heaven, Have Mercy On Us - (studio)  
14   Summer Of Protest - (studio)  
15   No Hope Before Destruction - (studio)  
16   Protest (Parallel) (Remix) - (studio)  
 

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Review

Spin (pp.99-100) - "[G]orgeous....[T]here's a cleverness to Lightburn's stylish panic attacks..." - Grade: A-
Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This is seriously literate stuff, and all the better for it....A record that carries a narrative, both musical and lyrical, without becoming a turgid concept album."
Uncut (p.76) - Ranked #32 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "[D]elicious, dark and consistently surprising..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] richly textured and coherent narrative, with the 12 songs cleverly juxtaposing the end of a romantic relationship with the end of the world....A drizzly doomsday masterpiece."

Title Note

The Dears' 2004 album NO CITIES LEFT was well recieved by critics and includes the tracks "Warm & Sunny Days," "We Can Have It," "Don't Lose The Faith," and "Never Destroy Us."

This edition includes four bonus tracks on the bonus Protest EP.

While the Dears are not a textbook goth band, this Canadian collective's second release, NO CITIES LEFT, burns with the despondent, desperate melodrama implied by the tag. The opener, "We Can Have It," blazes with angst as singer Murray A. Lightburn half-weeps "You never said I'd see you again." Lightburn's velvety lilt unabashedly channels Morrissey, though duets with singer Natalia Yanchak recall the tongue-in-cheek duels between Calvin Johnson and Amelia Fletcher of Heavenly. Cabaret horns and chamber strings characterize the sultry soap opera "Expect the Worst/'Cos She's a Tourist" and the Muzak funk of "Never Destroy Us." The Dears' brand of brooding manifests in extended pop symphonies that update the sounds of Pulp and the Smiths, and their Britpop/cabaret hybrid does bring to mind a stylish scene of black tattered suits swaying to the rhythm of a Las Vegas production number.

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