

We don’t know what’s going to happen next.’ Now it’s a doom that’s within our grasp. “Around 2001, it felt like, ‘We have no control. “You could go straight from Lovers Rock to No Cities Left and it’s like they’re interlocked. “There’s a direct line between the sort of doominess of No Cities Left and this album,” says Lightburn.

Nearly two decades later, as Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak began work on the band’s eighth album, Lovers Rock, well… as the meme says, “This Is Fine.”

When The Dears released their breakthrough album, No Cities Left, in 2003, it was a crepuscular, romantic soundtrack to uncertain times.
