Editorial Reviews Nor the Dahlias has everything to do with how the Dears got from there to here. And since, as singer Murray Lightburn promises, you will never hear any of these songs live, snap up the Dears' final Grenadine release: Nor the Dahlias: The Dears 1995-1998
Nor the Dahlias: The Dears 1995-1998
Music Review:
Music Review
Mozart: String Quartets 14 and 15
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" / Podles, Zylis-Gara, van Dam, Gasadesus
Music: West Side Baby (Live in Europe) [Live]
Ministry of Sound: Club Nation 2002, Vol. 2 [Explicit Lyrics] [Import]
Schubert: Sonata Arpeggione & Giuliani/Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra
Eye Weekly, Nov 2001
"...the best band in Canada."
About the Artist
This is the band which has since been astounding audiences with its trademark switched-on orchestral-pop-romantique sound, often performing live with the Cosmopolitan City Orchestra, an octet of classically trained musicians. Led by Mr. Lightburn himself, the group continues to move forward alongside their ever evolving music that grows heavier and heavier as time progresses.
Album Description
If End of a Hollywood was a musical odyssey though Serge Gainsborough pop stylings and Smiths-like keening vocals and epic guitarwork, then Nor the Dahlias' is a romp with the Brit boys Pulp and Blur in the early 90s heyday of up beats, tongue in cheek sarcasm and divine musical comedies where all the sad, serious clowns could be happy and the carnival of life was an almost dizzying kaleidoscope of melodies, harmonies and pop sensibilities.