Get Free, Unreleased Dears Song

04/22/09 6:03pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

You can download an unreleased Dears song called "Half Mast" from keyboardist/singer Natalia Yanchak's blog.

"['Half Mast' is] one of my favourite songs that we recorded for Missiles," Yanchak wrote in a post on Wednesday. "But for whatever reason when we were putting the album together, it stuck as the odd man out.

"So it didn't make the album. But it is still an awesome song."

The Dears were working on "a new case of tunes" last week, and Yanchak elaborated a bit on that in an interview with music blog Singing Lamb.

"Murray [Lightburn, singer/guitarist] goes through phases of writing songs and not writing songs. He's just entered another song writing phase and when that happens, its kind of manic: the music just comes and comes and he works as fast as he can to record everything that comes into his head. It's almost trance-like; he is so completely preoccupied with music, he sometimes forgets to eat and sleep. You just don't fuck around with that kind of inspiration.

"We will probably continue to write on the road, maybe try some things at sound checks, and when we get back, focus a lot on new songs."

The Dears have these dates scheduled:

April 30 Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club
May 1 Brooklyn, NY @ The Bell House w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 2 Albany, NY @ Valentine's w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 4 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 5 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 7 Washington, DC @ Black Cat w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 8 Pittsburgh, PA @ Diesel w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 9 Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 10 Columbus, OH @ Skully's w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 11 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 13 Chicago, IL @ Lakeshore Theater w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 14 Columbia, MO @ Mojo's w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 16 Denton, TX @ Hailey's w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 17 Houston, TX @ Warehouse w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 18 Austin, TX @ The Parish w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 21 Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 22 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 23 Echo Park, CA @ Echoplex w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 24 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 26 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 27 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Cafe w/Eulogies and Great Northern
May 29 Victoria, BC @ Sugar Nightclub w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
May 30 Vancouver, BC @ Richard's On Richards w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
May 31 Kelowna, BC @ Habitat w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
June 2 Calgary, AB @ Theatre Junction Grand w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
June 3 Edmonton, AB @ The Starlite Room w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
June 4 Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos Cantina w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
June 5 Regina, SK @ The Distrikt w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay
June 6 Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre w/Jets Overhead and Black Diamond Bay