Times Infinity, Vol. 1

Personnel: Murray Lightburn (vocals, guitar); Natalia Yanchak (vocals, keyboards); Patrick Krief (guitar); François Pilon, Heather Schnarr (violin); Ligia Paquin (viola); Sheila Hannigan (cello); Liam O'Neil (flute, saxophone); Chris Seligman (French horn); Evan Cranley (trombone); Roberto Arquilla (bass guitar); Jeff Luciani (drums).Recording information: Hotel2Tango, Ville De Montreal (2014); Revolution Recording, Toronto (2014).Photographer: John Todd .Arranger: The Dears.The much anticipated follow-up to 2011's excellent Degeneration Street, Times Infinity 1 is the first installment of a planned two-part collection of new music from the Montreal-based indie rock/post-rock unit led by Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak. Written and recorded over a two-year span, the ten-track set feels both epic and intimate, hopeful and apocalyptic, which is to say it sounds like a classic Dears album. Opener "We Lost Everything" is an elliptical three-chord anti-anthem that rolls in like an unst