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  • Summary: They might sound Britpop (and at the very least, a bit like The Smiths), but this collective led by Murray Lightburn hails from Montreal, Canada. This is their second album and first U.S. release.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Spin
    91
    There isn't a tune on No Cities Left, the Dears' gorgeous second album, that's not pitched at a minor state of emergency. [Jan 2005, p.99]
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  2. Playlouder
    90
    This is an album on which EVERYTHING ace you can think of in indie happens.
  3. Blender
    60
    Neither for the faint of heart, nor for those allergic to pretentiousness. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.103]
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  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
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  1. Hein
    10
    Briljant album full of passion.
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  2. TomJ
    10
    amazing
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  3. Electric_Face
    10
    This is what got me into the expansive and constantly-impressive realm of Canadian indie rock, and I can't think of anything better to start such an intrepid appreciation. Gold Star Murray Lightburn.… Expand
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