Initially emerging as a favorite of the minimal techno scene during the early 2000s, matthew dear gradually developed a highly unique style of experimental electropop, winning over indie crowds and critics. You will find a dancer, a poet, a trumpet player and mainstay ghostly visual artist and designer michael cina painting dears portrait for the cover of beams. Stream beams by matthew dear and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with amazon music unlimited. Matthew dear beams himself into a new album, with the disco coming on strong on her fantasy. Theres just one in a million hearts that feels the way, the way i do, laments matthew dear as her fantasy, the opening track of his fourth full length album beams, stumbles into motion. On beams, basslines that switch between prowling postpunk and slithering funk, along with slashandprickle guitars and bounding drums, inch matthew dear closer to his late70searly80s inspirations. Matthew dear has a new album out beams and its a quite good one. Front cover, back cover, 4 lp labels, cd, 4 panels of inside sleeves, sticker all art, design. Stream matthew dear temptation by ghostly from desktop or your mobile device. Its no stranger that its also dears most musical effort, which saw him incorporating live instrumentation throughout the. Early on in matthew dears beams the new yorkbased artists fourth fulllength, his first since 2010s shadowy masterpiece black city something strange happens. The album features the title track from the headcage ep from earlier this year. Listen free to matthew dear beams her fantasy, earthforms and more.
With 2010s black city serving as a perfecting of matthew dears berlinerabowiemeetstalkingheads pop star persona, beams isnt volteface weve come to expect from the former techno djs career. Next week, michigan dancemusic veteran matthew dear will release beams, his followup to 2010s excellently smoky black city. If kept to an inaudible volume, they could be used in a slasher flick as the mutterings of an obscene phone caller. You can download it as an mp3 file by clicking a series of links. Matthew dear will follow up his excellent 2010 lp black city with a new fulllength called beams on august 28 in the u. I have a rock n roll synthesizer more songs from the vault. You probably wouldnt guess it, but he actually released his first single in 1999 a year after he cofounded ghostly international. Temptation early on in matthew dears beams the new yorkbased artists fourth fulllength, his first since 2010s shadowy masterpiece black city something strange happens. Dears last album beams arrived in 2012, though he shared an lp titled alpha as audion in 2016. Dears vocals are at their most expressive, imposing, and sinister. Stone temple pilots perdida 2020 feb62020 i comments off on stone temple pilots perdida 2020 pet shop boys hotspot 2020 jan232020 i comments off on pet shop boys hotspot. Dear sounds confident in his dark disco sound, spinning out nasty jams like earthforms and fighting is futile with grace. Each successive release under the detroit producers own name has seen him reveal more of himself as he simultaneously retreats deeper into the shadows. With influences ranging from brian eno or david bowie, dear is far from just a techno producer.
Stream matthew dear beams, a playlist by ghostly from desktop or your mobile device. A colorful variety of tracks which sometimes remind me talking heads and david bowie oh, and dear has become a truly great singer. The record exists in the same universe of layered and compacted productions, subterranean basslines and. Matthew dears modafinil blues will soundtrack your comedown matthew dears first release since 2012s beams is a pulsing gothpop jewel that. Now available for preorder over at ghostlys store is a white vinyl pressing of beams, the latest album from matthew dear. Weve already heard two darkly glamorous tracks from the. Its called bunny and is out october 12 via ghostly international. Fighting is futile remixes matthew dear jan 29, 20. In fact, hes been charting his own course in the music industry for some time now. Beams expanded edition by matthew dear on apple music. Its almost like hes spent the last few years with his head in theo parrishs enviable record collection and then popped to the studio and recorded a pop album with the knowledge. To move forward, hes looked back and imbued his productions with the classic grit of early house and funk. First surfacing with a series of inventive club 12s, he began incorporating his own bowieinspired vocals into his productions on his 2003 fulllength debut, leave luck to. Second single from matthew dear s upcoming release beams, out august 27th.
Hes recorded solo lps under his own name and techno lps as audion, remixed acts like spoon and the postal service, and philosophized musically about love, loss, and lonely futuristic metropolises. Matthew dears modafinil blues will soundtrack your. From the early stanchions of microhouse and latewave detroit density to beams altpop workouts, twixt the giddily toothsome 80s funk workout of his 2003 breakout single dog days, to her fantasys coying pleas for connection among the clubs anonymous masses. Indeed, while a number of artists who first debuted over years ago sound stale, bored, or like they now lack direction. Dear met sam valenti iv at a party while attending the. This is the reason why i think beams is a huge surprise and in some ways even better than black city.
Description provided by wikipedia under creative commons attribution cc. Matthew dears fourth fulllength album, his first since 2010s black city, also out on ghostly international, comes shot through with that inimitable dear dose of striking character immediately recognisable and completely addictive. A step away from gleaming techno to the songcraft of david byrne or david bowie. As much as house music has turned into that dubstep fad, we still have great musicians like matthew dear making some of the best house music around.
M ss ng p eces in collaboration with matthew dear present the beams album trailer. Includes unlimited streaming of beams via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac. Matthew dear is back and by the sounds of it on form yet again following the success of 2010s black city. Matthew dear beams by ghostly ghostly international. August 7, 2012 matthew dear beams 2012 archive, electronic. You will find a dancer, a poet, a trumpet player and mainstay ghostly visual artist and designer michael cina. You can read all about matthew dears new beams album here, or preorder the vinyl pressing of his. A thickfingered electric bass gallops in atop a driving backbeat as dear sneers, its alright to be someone else sometimes. Amygdala dj koze kill for love chromatics tristesse contemporaine tristesse contemporaine brian eno.
Backstroke 3 by matthew dear, released 01 may 2020 1. If somebody could reupload them id offer my vast and unconditional love. Dears 2012 release was his most critically acclaimed by far. Download matthew dear songs, singles and albums on mp3. Texas born dear moved to michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of detroit techno. With 1,400 bands playing on 60odd stages over the course of five days and thats not even counting day parties and unofficial events the annual sxsw. Matthew dear born april 4, 1979 is an american music producer, dj and electronic avantpop artist.
Beams again finds the detroit producer fully inhabiting his inkblack, hedonistic world and extends his run of strong vocaloriented records. Temptation early on in matthew dear s beams the new yorkbased artists fourth fulllength, his first since 2010s shadowy masterpiece black city something strange happens. Beams provides more evidence of dears two unusual talents. Offering us a fresh path forward down the rabbit hole of unhinged phrasings, dreams, and interludes that make up his kaleidoscopic musical vision. Shapeshifting seamlessly between dj, experimental pop auteur and dancefloor deviant, matthew dear returns with his new album bunny. Matthew dears latest album continues the streak of dance noir that reached its pinnacle on 2010s black city with his new album, beams. In the fourth edition of our film series with sonos, the ghostly international cofounder takes us back to the small ranch town where it all started. At once incredibly forwardlooking and reassuringly familiar a hard trick to pull off in itself beams will feel like an album youve already spent a lifetime with, and can only cement dears reputation as one of the finest songwriters in modern electronic music.
Matthew dear embodies the true essence of what electronic music was originally about. Through 10 years, three recording aliases, and four proper fulllengths, matthew dear remains a cipher by design. Eno and talking heads while simultaneously making a noise that is now unmistakably matthew dear. After making his name as one of the midwests foremost sonic auteurs at microhouses peak, matthew dears spent the last five years or so reshaping himself into a producer whose electronicbased music pitches toward americas pastrock glories as much as global dance music climes.
Bringing in the artful side of dance music and mastering the feeling of euphoric dance, beams is. In the years since his first single, hands up for detroit, was released, matthew dear has taken his career in variety of directions. Backstroke is the second lp released by matthew dear under his given name. Matthew dear is not a new entry in the music scene. But the bass of earthforms hints more at 80s synthwave, while headcage gets spry and bouncy with its jaunty keyboards. A sort of career synthesis, beams hammers home all of matthew dears greatest strengthschunky blocks of rhythm, pounding bass, and a hell of a sort of career synthesis, beams hammers home all of matthew dears greatest strengthschunky blocks of rhythm, pounding bass, and a hell of a lot of sex appeal. Id been buying mostly from amazon and listening to electronic music chemical brothers, orbital, the prodigy and many others and i came across a small note in rolling stone magazine labeling matthew dear s leave luck to heaven as one of the best cds of the year 2003.
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