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Dearly Beloved tour constantly, in their native Canada, in the UK, all over Europe. Fully-fledged keepers of the rock n'roll flame, but with the speed and primal energy of hardcore punks like Fear and Black Flag mixed with the brooding ferocity of Sabbath and the his/her vocal interplay of The Pixies. For their past releases (the band has been - ahem - "putting out" since '06), it's been all about immediacy, intensity, capturing the moment as it happens. This time around, with Admission, a slightly different approach. First off, producer Daniel Rey (Ramones, Misfits) is the first studio maven the band has entrusted to sit behind the control board, and his techniques were strenuous even for a notoriously hard-working band. They played fifteen of the songs they'd written for the album live in a small, sweaty rehearsal space in East LA. Eight hours a day, every day, for a week for Daniel. The twelve tunes that were still standing after that, got recorded. In 14 days. (Recorded at Dave Grohl's Studio 606, on, you guessed it: the famed, custom built, '70s-era Neve 8028 analog console that gave us Nevermind and more than a hundred certified gold and platinum rock records.) The result is an album of immediacy and intensity, but tempered with thoughtfulness, shrewd reflection, and, it must be said, maturity. The band's sound and subject matter are as raucous and severe as they've ever been, but they're clearing coming into their own, growing into the space they've carved out for themselves, expanding their dynamic range in every sense. Says guitarist/singer Higgins: "Admission has plenty of darkness, and heartache, but there is also love and empathy. Dearly Beloved began as an outlet during some dark times that brought some close friends closer. We described our first album (You Are The Jaguar, 2006) as 'chaos tempered with love and delivered with great fury.' That still applies. Maybe now more than ever.