The Dears Share Video for New Music “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely! Due Out November 7 through Subsequent Door
Oct 08, 2025
Images by Richmond Lam
Montréal’s The Dears are releasing a brand new album, Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely!, on Subsequent Door. Now they’ve shared its newest single, “Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” through a music video. Kevin Drew of Damaged Social Scene and Rachel McLean co-directed the video. Watch it beneath.
Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely! Life Is Lovely! contains “Babe, We’ll Discover a Method,” which the band launched in June and was their first new single in virtually 5 years. It was one in all our Songs of the Week. When the album was introduced they shared its subsequent single, “Tears of a Nation,” through a music video co-directed by Kevin Drew of Damaged Social Scene and Rachel McLean.
The band are led by the husband and spouse staff of Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak.
Lightburn had this to say concerning the album in a press launch: “I bear in mind when it clicked in my mind what I used to be writing about. It was quickly after we performed a collection of exhibits celebrating the twentieth anniversary of No Cities Left. I used to be on stage surrounded by fantastic musicians, enjoying songs I wrote in my 20s. My children and my mother have been sitting up on the balcony of the theatre. Natalia was simply to my proper. I advised the viewers that typically it will get powerful however that life is gorgeous. I requested the viewers to say it with me, 3 times: A mantra; a want; an affirmation.
“Life is hard. We expertise challenges on a regular basis. In our darkest hours we’d suppose it’s by no means going to be higher. But when we will simply make it via, we discover out what we thought was not possible; that we might smile once more, possibly even chortle. We really feel our family members. We learn how sturdy we might be. The songs on this report are for everybody and anybody. They’re meant to be supportive.”
The Dears’ final album was Lovers Rock, which additionally got here out in 2020 through Dangerbird. In November 2020 the band shared a holiday-themed track, “Christmas Love.”
Lightburn has remained lively because the final Dears album, releasing in 2023 each the soundtrack I Like Films: Authentic Music From The Movement Image and the solo album As soon as Upon a Time In Montréal.
Learn our 2020 interview with The Dears on Lovers Rock.
Learn our 2006 cowl story interview with The Dears.
The Dears Tour Dates:
NOV 20: MONTREAL, QC – LE NATIONAL
NOV 27: OTTAWA, ON – NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE (STUDIO)
NOV 28: TORONTO, ON – LEE’S PALACE
NOV 29: GUELPH, ON – SONIC HALL
NOV 30: ST CATHARINES, ON – WAREHOUSE
DEC 1: HAMILTON, ON – BRIDGEWORKS
FEB 10: ROTTERDAM, NL – ROTOWN
FEB 12: PARIS, FR – PETIT BAIN
FEB 14: ISTANBUL, TUR – TBA
FEB 17: BIRMINGHAM, UK – HARE & HOUNDS
FEB 18: LONDON, UK – OSLO
FEB 19: CAMBRIDGE, UK – PORTLAND ARMS
FEB 20: MANCHESTER, UK – NIGHT & DAY
FEB 21: GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – HUG & PINT
FEB 22: LEEDS, UK – THE ATTIC
