Missiles (album)

Missiles is the fourth full-length studio album by Canadian indie rock band The Dears, which was released on October 20, 2008 on Dangerbird Records in the United States and MapleMusic Recordings in Canada.

Missiles
Studio album by
The Dears
Released20 October 2008
GenreIndie rock
Length58:16
LabelDangerbird Records
MapleMusic Recordings
The Dears chronology
Gang of Losers
(2006)		 Missiles
(2008)		 Degeneration Street
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100 link
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk.net(77%) link
Allmusic link
Blender link
ChartAttack link
The Guardian
NME
Pitchfork Media(7.3/10) link
Slant Magazine link
Spin link
The Toronto Star link

Recording

The album was marked by creative tensions within the band. By the time the recording process was complete, most of the supporting musicians had left, leaving only core members Murray Lightburn and Natalia Yanchak.[1] Lightburn subsequently selected several other musicians, including members of Pony Up, as a temporary touring band; most of the band's earlier lineup later returned for the 2011 album Degeneration Street.

Track listing
All songs written by Murray Lightburn.
No.TitleLength
1."Disclaimer"6:44
2."Dream Job"4:32
3."Money Babies"4:16
4."Berlin Heart"4:26
5."Lights Off"8:02
6."Crisis 1 & 2"3:44
7."Demons"5:00
8."Missiles"5:00
9."Meltdown in A Major"5:10
10."Saviour"11:20

Personnel

Musicians
  • George Donoso III - Drums, Background Vocals, Handclaps
  • Roberto Arquila - Bass Guitar, Percussion
  • Murray Lightburn - Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals, Percussion
  • Patrick Krief - Guitar, Mellotron, Background Vocals, Percussion
  • Robert Benvie - Guitar, Banjo, Snyth, Background Vocals, Percussion
  • Adrian Popovich - Guitar
  • Natalia Yanchak - Keyboards, Vocals
  • Aaron Seligman - Handclaps
  • Jonathon Achtman - Handclaps
  • Brian Smith - Handclaps
  • Jason Thomas - Handclaps, Percussion
  • Matt Watkins - Trumpet
  • Chris Seligman - French Horn
  • Evan Cranley - Trombone
  • Jade McNelis - Violin
  • Marika - VLNS
  • Anthony Shaw - VLNS
  • Kristina Koropecki - Cello
  • Rev. William Lightburn - Saxophone
  • Every Kid Choir: Amethyste Baranes, Samuel Baranes, Amelia Bonter, Esme Steadman-Gantous, Simone Steadman-Gantous, Erika Vigneault, Sinna Mouilin-Creyx, Varnen Pareukan, Abby Gilbert, Maria Gabriela

Other Personnel

RECORDING:

  • Daniel Lagace, Drew Malamud - Studio Plateau, MTL
  • Joseph Donovan, Adrian Popovich - Mountain City, MTL
  • Jace Lasek - Breakglass, MTL

MIXING:

  • Roberto Arquila, Murray Lightburn, Drew Malamud - Hotel 2 Tango, MTL

MASTERING:

  • Bob Ludwig - Gateway Mastering, Portland, ME

Artwork:

  • Edward Maloney

A&R: Jeff Castelaz and Peter Walker
MANAGEMENT: Dangerbird
LEGALMENT: Craig Averill, Esq.

gollark: Given that our slag production makes *about* one per ten seconds (probably less), and 12.8 units of 5 coal would be needed for 1 diamond, we could get one diamond every two minutes or so.
gollark: I figured out a terrible, terrible (in the sense of being slightly cheaty) way to get diamonds:1. hook up slag production to thermal centrifuge (there's a 1 slag -> tiny gold dust + 5 coal dust recipe)2. feed coal to compactor (makes compressed coal balls; without this it would need flint, but that's easy too)3. compress the coal ball into a ... compressed coal ball4. compress the compressed coal balls into a coal chunk (usually this would require obsidian, iron or bricks, but the compactor skips that too - obsidian is automateable easily but with large power input, though)5. compress coal chunk into diamond
gollark: Oh, this is really cool, Random PSIDeas has a thing which allows me to move my camera position.
gollark: ... right, the dirt, silly me.
gollark: It would also expose the stone brick roof to the surface.

References
  1. "The Dears unveil new album...and lose some members", The Guardian, August 11, 2008.
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