MATTHEW DEAR SET TO RELEASE ‘BLACK CITY’ ON GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL AUGUST 17, 2010.
FIRST TRACK NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AND POSTING
“I Can’t Feel” mp3 FREE at Matthewdear.com with email sign up
Black City arrives on Ghostly International on August 17th in North America and August 16th worldwide. Now is Matthew Dear’s moment, and it sounds like nothing else. You can grab the first MP3 from the album if you sign up at Matthewdear.com
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 dance floor 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 the Fabric mix series and Get Physical’s Body Language. He maintains four aliases (Audion, False, Jabberjaw, and Matthew Dear), each with its own style and distinct visual identity. His highly anticipated third album, 2010’s Black City – follow up to 2007’s critically acclaimed Asa Breed – is the culmination of years of hard work and experimentation, a darkly playful sound-world that envelops the listener like the arms of a malevolent lover.
Matthew Dear’s Black City can’t be found on any map. It’s a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives. Like most literary Gothams, Black City is a place to love and hate, as seedy and seductive as a nightclub’s back room. Matthew Dear, the musician, may live in New York City, but the Matthew Dear of Black City inhabits a sound-world unlike any other: a monument to the shadowy side of urban life that bumps and creaks, shudders and wakes up screaming in the middle of the night. Black City is Matthew Dear’s darkest and most engrossing work to date.
As well as the usual formats, Black City will also be released in a limited edition design package made by an award winning design firm, Boym, who won the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum’s National Design Award in 2009
CD & LP Tracklist
Honey
I Can’t Feel
Little People (Black City)
Slowdance
Soil To Seed
You Put A Smell On Me
Shortwave
Monkey
More Sugery
Gem