No Cities Left is an album by The Dears

The Dears

-History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...

, released in 2003 on MapleMusic Recordings

MapleMusic Recordings

MapleMusic Recordings is a Toronto based record label.The MapleMusic Recordings label is a project of Canadian roots rock band Skydiggers and entrepreneur Grant Dexter...

. It was the band's second full-length album of new material and was so successful that it was re-released in Canada in 2005.

The album features fellow Canadian indie-rocker Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts

Sam Roberts is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.-Life and career:...

 playing violin on "Never Destroy Us".

Track listing

1. "We Can Have It" – 5:42
2. "Who Are You, Defenders of the Universe?" – 3:42
3. "Lost in the Plot" – 4:49
4. "The Second Part" – 5:41
5. "Don't Lose the Faith" - 3:10*
6. "Expect the Worst/'Cos She's a Tourist" – 7:52
7. "Pinned Together, Falling Apart" – 6:01
8. "Never Destroy Us" – 4:29
9. "Warm and Sunny Days" – 5:47
10. "22: The Death of All the Romance" – 5:56
11. "Postcard from Purgatory" – 7:57
12. "No Cities Left" – 7:55

"Don't Lose The Faith" was omitted from the original American release.

No Cities Left extended rerelease

The 2005 re-release of No Cities Left included "Don't Lose the Faith" and also the content of their EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Protest

Protest (The Dears EP)

Protest is an EP by The Dears, released in limited quantities in 2002. It was later re-released in a mass market version with different artwork in 2004...

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Videos

Videos were released for "Lost In The Plot", "Don't Lose The Faith", and "22: The Death of All the Romance".

Personnel

• Murray Lightburn
  Murray Lightburn
  Murray Lightburn is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for The Dears.Lightburn has been called "the black Morrissey" due to his vocal similarity to the former The Smiths lead singer. Incidentally, The Dears toured as Morrissey's opening act during...
  
   - Lead and background vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, Fender Rhodes, piano, melodica, midi programming, tambourine, maracas, handclaps
• Natalia Yanchak - NordElectro organ and clavinet, piano, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, lead and background vocals, handclaps
• Martin Pelland - Bass guitar, background vocals, handclaps
• George Donoso III - Drums, background vocals, handclaps
• Valerie Jodoin-Keaton - background vocals, handclaps
• Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts
  Sam Roberts is a Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, whose 2001 debut release, The Inhuman Condition, became one of the bestselling independent releases in Quebec and Canadian music history.-Life and career:...
  
   - Violin
• Heather Schnarr - Violin
• Matthew Perrin - Double Bass
• Josh Fuhrman - Tenor Saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Brigitte Mayes - Cello, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, flute, background vocals, handclaps
• The Brebeuf Brass : Matthew Watkins (trumpet), Chris Seligman (french horn) and Evan Cranley
  Evan Cranley
  Evan Cranley is a Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec. He records with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene, although he considered joining the band Metric before finally joining Stars. His partner is currently Stars bandmate Amy Millan....
  
  (Euphonium, trombone)