{"product_id":"lovers-rock","title":"Lovers Rock","description":"\u003cp\u003eMontréal stalwarts The Dears release their eighth studio album \u003ci\u003eLovers Rock \u003c\/i\u003evia Dangerbird Records. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Dears’ 2003 breakthrough album\u003ci\u003e No Cities Left \u003c\/i\u003ewas a crepuscular, romantic soundtrack to uncertain times. 9\/11. War. The looming economic crisis. Nearly two decades later, as Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak began work on \u003ci\u003eLovers Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, the world’s mood felt eerily similar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s a direct line between the sort of doominess of\u003ci\u003e No Cities Left\u003c\/i\u003e and this album,” says Lightburn. “You could go straight from \u003ci\u003eLovers Rock \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eNo Cities Left\u003c\/i\u003e and it’s like they're interlocked. But it's a different kind of doom. Around 2001, it felt like, ‘We have no control. We don't know what's going to happen next.’ Now it’s a doom that's within our grasp. It’s in the air. It’s between us. But we do nothing about it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf The Dears have always made apocalyptic love songs for an existential crisis, there are also other constants, starting, of course, with the band’s two core members for two decades: Lightburn and Yanchak. There are also certain sonic and aesthetic parameters, within which the music can be both unsettlingly experimental and impossibly lush: part Bacharach, part Krautrock. From the anthemic anger and driving resignation of \u003ci\u003eHeart of An Animal \u003c\/i\u003eto the swoony, swerving, epic \u003ci\u003eThe Worst In Us, Lovers Rock\u003c\/i\u003e is the sound of The Dears topping themselves yet again, an accomplishment borne of ambition, hard work, and a strong sense of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dangerbird","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50468930355531,"sku":"1091952","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50468930650443,"sku":"1091951","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fbdac296-8e14-42f2-82d3-f9d793580069_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727353998","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/lovers-rock","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}