{"id":14145,"date":"2015-07-14T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=14145"},"modified":"2015-10-31T21:11:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T01:11:15","slug":"the-dears-announce-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=14145","title":{"rendered":"The Dears announce new album &#8216;Times Infinity Volume One&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate their 20th anniversary, Montreal\u2019s The Dears have announced\u00a0&#8216;Times Infinity Volume One,&#8217; the group\u2019s first new studio album since 2011\u2019s &#8216;Degeneration Street&#8217;. &#8216;Times Infinity Volume One&#8217; will be out on\u00a0September 25 via Pheromone Recordings in Canada and Dangerbird in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Used To Pray For The Heavens To Fall<\/em>, the first track lifted\u00a0from the upcoming album, premiered via Noisey\u00a0today &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/weareab.us5.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=60fdb8b31e218d73d68f54164&amp;id=12b02e9418&amp;e=6b0423bec9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to take a listen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14153\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?resize=300%2C270\" alt=\"XINF_coverweb_lo\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?resize=1024%2C923&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?resize=333%2C300&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?resize=900%2C811&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/XINF_coverweb_lo.jpg?w=1651&amp;ssl=1 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Dears frontman Murray Lightburn states, <em>\u201cWhen you start a band, you never think of the end. When we began work on this album, it was a process that consumed us completely, harkening back to our earliest days. In turn, the record became about sentimentality but in the face of great uncertainty; the concept of eternal love and all its fragility.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Written over a two-year period, the work was finally committed to audio at the luxuriant Revolution Recording (Toronto) and thee mighty hotel2tango (Montreal) between the summer of 2014 and spring of 2015. The sound is described by the band as <em>\u201cboth refined and sloppy. At times chill, always trill.\u201d<\/em> Lightburn continues, <em>\u201cTimes Infinity is made of daydreams and spontaneous yet careful inspiration\u2026. we want what comes out of your speakers to be true &#8211; \u2018to you and for you.\u2019 That is what always has been and always will be the sound of The Dears.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information on The Dears, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedears.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">thedears.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>To commemorate their 20th anniversary, Montreal\u2019s The Dears have announced\u00a0&#8216;Times Infinity Volume One,&#8217; the group\u2019s first new studio album since 2011\u2019s &#8216;Degeneration Street&#8217;. &#8216;Times Infinity <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=14145\" title=\"The Dears announce new album &#8216;Times Infinity Volume One&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[206,23,28,30],"tags":[3089,3090,3088,3086,3087],"class_list":["post-14145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-dangerbird","tag-i-used-to-pray-for-the-heavens-to-fall","tag-pheromone-recordings","tag-the-dears","tag-times-infinity-volume-one"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the-dears.png?fit=359%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-3G9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18642,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=18642","url_meta":{"origin":14145,"position":0},"title":"The Tiny Record Shop set to host in-store performance with The Dears","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"November 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Tiny Record Shop has\u00a0announced that\u00a0The\u00a0Dears\u00a0will be performing acoustically at\u00a0the\u00a0store and signing vinyl\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0November\u00a028th\u00a0at\u00a01:00PM. 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