Gang of Losers
Montreal post-Britpop band follows its well-publicized 2003 album No Cities Left with a record that mixes jangly pop with darker material.
Anything short of a bold manifesto on love, life, and desire would be surprising at this point for Murray Lightburn, passionate frontman for The Dears. (This is, after all, the songwriter who admitted in an interview to weeping when he met Morrissey, who'd asked The Dears to open for him.) The expected…
<p><strong> Paul Mardles</strong> is overjoyed to learn that Britpop is alive and in rude health, having relocated from north London to Montreal.</p>
On the third track of the Dears' new album, Gang of Losers, lead singer Murray Lightburn pleads over and over again,