Beams

Recorded in Dear's home studio and mixed at Nicolas Vernhes' Rare Book Room studios in Brooklyn, Beams evokes a day-lit dreamworld at once strange and familiar, While the album's dancefloor-ready tempos, major keys, and sun-warmed synths signal Beams as the lighter, brighter response to its predecessor, closer inspection reveals a squirming mass of oddball details. Dear's latest productions on Beams creak and groan like anxious organisms, with slivers of guitar, electric bass, and drum kit darting in and out among the synths and samples, Beams is the latest transmission from one of pop music's most fascinating creative minds, Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader, He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound, He's had remixes commissioned by The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers; he's made mixes for Get Physical's Body Language and Fabric mix series, He maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity, He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none-and he's just hitting his stride.

Tracks

1~1~Her Fantasy
1~2~Earthforms
1~3~Headcage
1~4~Fighting Is Futile
1~5~Up & Out
1~6~Overtime
1~7~Get The Rhyme Right
1~8~Ahead Of Myself
1~9~Do The Right Thing
1~10~Shake Me
1~11~Temptation

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Matthew Dear
Release Date: 31 August 2012
Genre: Special Interest / Miscellaneous
Label: GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL
Distributor: Rocket Group