Dear Reader returns with "I Know You Can Hear It", the first single from new record Day Fever

The new single also comes with a video by director Annikki Heinemann, which combines MacNeil's dreamy new alt. pop ode with striking imagery. Speaking about the visuals, Heinemann says: "Dear Reader's song deals with the theme of death, so we decided to tell the story of a young man who has died, and his transition into the next realm. Cherilyn and her band mates play four 'ferrywomen' who help guide the man to the afterlife, and rather than a place to be feared, it is a place where he can be free."

Day Fever was recorded in San Francisco in the studio of John Vanderslice (Spoon, The Mountain Goats).

Using actual tape as opposed to digital trickey, MacNeil was forced to capture the rawness of live performance on Day Fever - no song on the LP had more than two takes. “It went against everything I felt comfortable with,” MacNeil says of the process. The result is urgent and personal, with every imperfection and unconscious detail thrust into the final edits.

Tracklist:

1. Oh, The Sky!
2. Tie Me To The Ground
3. So Pretty So Pathetic
4. Mean Well
5. Wake Him
6. Placate Her
7. If Only
8. I Know You Can Hear It (video)
9. Nothing Melodious
10. Then, Not Now
11. The Run