🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne

The Dears:
🎵 Lost In The Plot

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https://thedears.bandcamp.com/track/lost-in-the-plot

https://open.spotify.com/track/35w2ArhL2JbnSnaJ3EWGU3

I track music I listen to through Last.fm every day, and the 2025 report from the site captured a year where I made an effort to listen to a lot of new music but returned to favourites often.

I listened to a lot of Softcult, Ian Penn, Matthew Sweet, The Dears, and Hiroyuki Sawano in 2025. Sawano’s Xenoblade Chronicles X soundtrack was playing as a constant. Ian Penn’s Seascapes was another brilliant folk album I return to again and again. Dream Kittu’s cover of “Uncontrollable” from the Xenoblade Chronicles X soundtrack was another aspect of that game bleeding out into my life.

New music from The Dears!

They're consistently excellent album after album, so Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life is Beautiful! coming out in November has me excited. The first two tracks are hopeful, glorious songs.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mJtKTILPZtbkpCS6nnQoVbV0OatiaM0Vw&si=ZUwjcpF8yidc03U5

https://thedears.org/

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I"m on a Dears kick lately.

Here's to the Death of All the Romance by The Dears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQOd0iWDzM4
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow

The Dears:
🎵 This Is a Broadcast

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https://open.spotify.com/track/5Idkct9WtOzWdykaFR5t1N

I heard this song on #WMPG #CommunityRadio this afternoon. Uh-huh!

"This is the summer of protest
That they can never defuse
Force is a language they understand
And force we will use
And force we will use
And force we will use
This is the summer of protest
Of every dollar that kills
Run straight for the underground
Run straight for the hills
Run straight for the hills
Run straight for the hills
This is the summer of protest
Gotta get out of school
Start up a revolution..."
- The Dears, 2002

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOhWUufYXI0

#TheDears #SummerOfProtest
#MusicForTheRevolution #CivilDisobedience #ShoeGazer

It's a #TheDears kind of day

https://open.spotify.com/track/1dXaiPFOuSQQdascWTzB5h?si=OZ5P4I-3QC-bnV17L7zUOg

The Dears – “Is This What You Really Want?”

The Dears' Lovers Rock album is stellar straight through, but I took a bit longer to warm to "Is This What You Really Want?" Now I enjoy it just as much as the handful of songs that I fell in love with on first listen.

https://apollolemmon.com/2020/07/01/the-dears-is-this-what-you-really-want/

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The Dears – “I Know What You’re Thinking and It’s Awful”

As the tracks keep coming from the upcoming Lovers Rock album from The Dears, I'm more and more excited. "I Know What You're Thinking and It's Awful" is a stunning song, and immediately taking up a lot of space in my head.

https://apollolemmon.com/2020/04/29/the-dears-i-know-what-youre-thinking-and-its-awful/

#TheDears