Degeneration Street by The Dears

Degeneration Street, the Dears' fifth studio album, came out on February 15, 2011, on Dangerbird in the United States, and it's the sound of a band pulling itself back together. Several players who had sat out the previous record, Missiles, came back for this one, Patrick Krief among them, and the fuller lineup gives the songs a bigger, bolder sweep: grand, dramatic indie rock with the brooding still intact.

"Blood" was the song that reached the radio. Before release the band previewed the whole thing live, playing the album front to back at shows in Montreal and Toronto, and it later made the longlist for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.

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