Matthew Dear has been producing and DJing for more than 10 years now but even to those familiar with his music, either produced under his given name or one of his aliases (Audion (Spectral Sound), ...

Early on in Matthew Dear's Beams- the New York-based artist's fourth full-length, his first since 2010's shadowy masterpiece Black City- something strange happens. A thick-fingered electric bass ...

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 ...

Matthew Dear is a shapeshifter, oscillating seamlessly between DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental pop auteur. He is a founding artist on both Ghostly International and its dancefloor oshoot, ...

Matthew Dear is a shapeshifter, oscillating seamlessly between DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental pop auteur. He is a founding artist on both Ghostly International and its dancefloor oshoot, ...

rainbow splatter vinyl ltd to 1000 copies worldwide. Matthew Dear is a shapeshifter, oscillating seamlessly between DJ, dance-music producer, and experimental pop auteur. He is a founding artist on ...

This unearthed Matthew Dear album was originally recorded after his acclaimed album Asa Breed (2007). RIYL: Beck, Bill Callahan/Smog, Bibio. Twenty-plus years into his career, ...

This unearthed Matthew Dear album was originally recorded after his acclaimed album Asa Breed (2007). RIYL: Beck, Bill Callahan/Smog, Bibio. Twenty-plus years into his career, ...

Limited edition colored vinyl limited to 2100 copies worldwide; features yellow + black marbled vinyl. This unearthed Matthew Dear album was originally recorded after his acclaimed album Asa Breed ...

Could the swansong single from Matthew Dear's Black City be anything but "Slowdance," that tender piece of goth romanticism tucked between "Little People (Black City)" and "Soil To Seed"? It has such ...