"Degeneration Street" is the latest effort from The Dears, which came out earlier this year. After a few listens to it, it seems like a solid comparison would be a more rock, less electronic version of TV On The Radio (which may also be hyperbole due to how long The Dears have been around for). At times on this record, Dears front man Murray Lightburn sounds exactly like TVOTR front man Tunde Adebimpe. That may be the reason why I tend to compare the two bands, but The Dears do hold their own.
As big as a comparison as I may have made, The Dears do achieve their own sound and establish it in the first couple tracks and let you know what you are in store for on the rest of the album. Below are a couple live tracks from their session on Seattle's KEXP.
These guys are so creative, so talented, so pretentiously original... Phenomenal in every live performance... It blows my mind that they aren't hugely popular across the U.S.
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