If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, or know me at all, you may know that one of my favourite bands is The Dears. So when I saw a brand new song pop up last Friday, I was just a little excited.

The perhaps timely named “The Worst In Us” is the first single off their upcoming album Lovers Rock due out May 15. It starts off with a grandiose swell, but takes a turn part-way through, hinting at a callback to the darker No Cities Left.

In fact, singer Murray Lightburn says “There’s a direct line between the sort of doominess of No Cities Left and this album. You could go straight from Lovers Rock to No Cities Left and it’s like they're interlocked. But it's a different kind of doom. Around 2001, it felt like, ‘We have no control. We don't know what's going to happen next.’ Now it’s a doom that's within our grasp. It’s in the air. It’s between us. But we do nothing about it.”

Take a look/listen below!