The Mary Onettes’ Dare

The Mary Onettes have a new EP titled Dare coming out on April 29, and you can listen to a couple of tracks on their MySpace page. I don’t mind admitting that my heart skipped a beat or two when I heard that orchestration come swooping in on the title track (download it here). Or, as the Labrador newsletter put it:

Written in isolation and partly recorded in a church “Dare” still ends up their most uplifting song to date — imagine a Swedish equivalent of The National on a diet of speed, Planet Earth DVDs and Go-Betweens singles and you’ll have a vague idea of how wonderful this is!

The Mary Onettes are back, and I for one, couldn’t be happier.