Gold-Bears' second full-length, DALLIANCE is a record about regret. In the past two years since Gold-Bears released their debut album, ARE YOU FALLING IN LOVE?, main Bear Jeremy Underwood gathered a new crop of friends to carry out his fuzz-filled visions. DALLIANCE is more focused and abrasive than that 2011 debut, combining their noise-pop influences from forebears like Boyracer and the Wedding Present with shades of the post-hardcore, emo and post-punk on which the band all cut their musical teeth. This not to say the Gold-Bears gave up impossibly catchy song-writing, just that their signature indie punk anthems are now even sharper, the guitars even more slashing, and the songs even more harrowing and heartfelt than ever.