Credits:

Matthew Dear

Description:

The album's opener, "Muscle Beach," opens with a thumping tambourine and Dear's bluesy baritone telling a country-folk tale of a young man on the run. Hiker's Y" is unmistakably the sound of Matthew Dear, with a fixed bassline as its foundation and a dry-spoken mantra that pulses like a metronome, unafraid to straddle the two worlds of porch music talking blues and minimal techno The music is unafraid to straddle the two worlds of porch music talking blues and minimal techno. On "Supper Times," a major scale loop cycles hypnotically, with minor chords gliding beneath it like a hallucinatory dream sequence. The song follows the album's most impassioned "Crash and Burn," a chaos of bent guitar strums and slacker-pop harmonica that challenges Beck's "Odeley"-era hits and grub-pop-centric touchstones. song can't help but be influenced by Dear's innovative production features.From the in-song piano break in "All Her Fits" (a rare chord change for Dear) to the gloomy carnival-turned-out-of-town flourishes of "Gutters And Beyond," "Preacher's Sigh & Potion" is pop and rock history, Country twang, and the outlandish ideas of an artist dashing through techno build-and-release, Dear is a writer, and in retrospect, these relics of his former self display many of his signature traits: a sense of the past, a sense of the future, a sense of the future, and a sense of the future. (2/2)

Tracklisting:

01. MUSCLE BEACH
02. SOW DOWN
03. HIKERS Y
04. NEVER DIVIDE
05. ALL HER FITS
06. SUPPER TIMES
07. CRASH & BURN
08. HEART TO SING
09. EYE
10. HEAD
11. GUTTERS & BEYOND