MATTHEW DEARs verschollenes Album „Preacher's Sigh & Potion“ von 2008 wird am 25. Juni über Ghostly International veröffentlicht. MATTHEW hat zuvor bereits die Leadsingles „Muscle Beach“ und „Supper Times“ sowie „Hikers Y“ veröffentlicht. Heute hat er mit „Gutters And Beyond“ einen weiteren Song geteilt, ein roher und einfacher Track, in dem MATTHEW mit den Verlockungen des Exzesses ringt. Wo die anderen Songs verspielt und beschwingt waren, sind die Dinge hier ganz zurückgenommen - immer mehr Schichten werden hinzugefügt, bevor sie den Weg für auffallend offene Lyrics frei machen.

Über den Track sagt MATTHEW: „This is 'sober me' giving into 'drinking me'. I've been sober for 5 years now, but I've always gone hot and cold in the past. My type of drinking has always been rather predictable in its unpredictability. What I mean by that is some nights I could have a glass of wine at dinner and go quietly to bed after, and other nights, dinner would wind up lasting 2 days and I'd be DJ'ing an afterparty for total strangers in a different city. I sought that life out from an early age, and prospered in the accompanied freedoms it often presented me. After a while though, it took its toll. Rarely in singular moments of clarity, but more in subtle jabs at my ability to maintain a good, productive and balanced life. So „Gutters And Beyond“ is really about the struggle, and apparently when I wrote this one, I was throwing in the towel to the addictive personality within."