{"title":"Matthew Dear","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our collection of Matthew Dear vinyl records, CDs, box sets, and more at Darkside Records. Shop new and used releases with fresh inventory arriving daily.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"matthew-dear-preachers-sigh-potion-lost-album-violet-colored-vinyl-preorder","title":"Matthew Dear- Preacher's Sigh \u0026 Potion: Lost Album - Violet Colored Vinyl","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GHOSTLY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44467124928733,"sku":"804297838267","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/NTEtMjQ4MS5qcGVn.jpg?v=1771199164"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-preachers-sigh-potion-lost-album-1","title":"Matthew Dear- Preacher's Sigh \u0026 Potion: Lost Album (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-plus years into his career, producer\/vocalist\/songwriter\/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically-formed, organically-delivered indie pop. His work traverses myriad musical worlds, belonging to none. But these fluid moves have not been without a few forks in the road, decisive turns, and what-ifs. Most notable is the pivot-point following Dear's acclaimed 2007 avant-pop LP, Asa Breed, in which he broke away from the 4\/4 grid of his techno\/house debut Leave Luck To Heaven and into something much more wild and idiosyncratic. Traveling between his adopted Detroit and his home state of Texas throughout 2008 and 2009, Dear amassed a set of personal, playful, looping guitar-centric recordings he'd consider for his next album. Given the new momentum of the hybrid electronic pop of Asa Breed which led to an opening slot for Hot Chip and remixes for '00 heroes like Spoon and Postal Service, Dear decided to shelf the material. He moved ahead to work on his watershed 2010 album, Black City, a steely noir set which earned him a Best New Music on Pitchfork and a worldwide tour with a besuited band. This \"lost album\" had a sound, a spirited country romp in the techno barn, and it had a rough title, a scribble on one of the CD-Rs passed to Ghostly label founder Sam Valenti IV, Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion. He never fully walked away from it, and merely kept moving down the road, waiting for the audience to catch up. Over a decade later, that time is now.\n\nPreacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion finds Dear unknowingly at an intersection in his young run, a burgeoning songwriter at his most freewheeling and unaffected. Dear reflects as he listens back, \"I love hearing how free and raw a lot of the production is. As we age, we get trapped in thinking our output or creativity needs to mature as well. Some of that is unavoidable, but listening to these songs reminds me to not think so much. It's important to be in that world without consequence from time to time.\"\n\nIn hindsight, there were hints of Preacher's sound on As Breed, but the set still registers endearingly out of step with his eventual direction. This was the first time Dear tapped so directly into his late father's influence as a fingerpicking guitar player in the 1960s and '70s and a gateway to the music of John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, and Emmylou Harris. Dear details: \"On one trip down to Austin, I took some of my dad's equipment and tried to lay out a song using what I knew about techno arrangement but use his guitars and various small instruments to layer a more organic loop-based sound. I'd say that was the beginning of this album. Realizing I could apply what I'd been doing in the computer to the other music I loved and grew up with.\"\n\nThe twang and tambourine stomp of album opener \"Muscle Beach\" gets right into it, with Dear's bluesy baritone narrating a country-folk tale of a young man on the run. \"Hikers Y\" is unmistakably Matthew Dear; building on a locked-in bassline, he delivers a dryly dismissive mantra as a metronome-like pulse that is equal parts porch music talking blues and minimal techno, unafraid to straddle those two worlds. \"Supper Times\" cycles hypnotically around a major scale loop that gyres off into minor chords skating underneath like a disorienting dream sequence; Dear's vocals hover luminously, obscured in the static as airy synth sounds percolate. It's a bait and switch for \"Crash and Burn,\" the album's most fevered stretch, all bent up guitar strums and slacker-pop harmonica chaos. Brushing up against touchstones like Beck's Odelay era smash and grab-popcentrics, this one doesn't escape unstung by the cactus of Dear's whiz-bang production hallmarks.\n\nFrom the mid-song piano break in \"All Her Fits\" (a rare Dear chord change) to the gloomy carnival-leaving-town pomp of \"Gutters and Beyond,\" Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion is filled with the reckless notions of an artist dashing the history of pop and rock, the twang of country, the build and release of techno. Dear is an auteur, and in retrospect, so many of his signatures crop up in these relics from his former self. Dear remembers him well: \"It's crazy how music memory exists in a very deep and indescribable tangibility. I know the person who made all these, and remember glimpses of the desk, or studio set up for each recording. I know who wrote these lyrics, and where they were mentally during that process.\" Revisiting this material now also has Dear thinking about his father's legacy: \n\n\"He also showed me that anyone can play, and perform for people, regardless of having albums or not. He was a very controlled and skilled guitar player but made it look natural and smooth. He had hundreds of songs in his repertoire and would play them nightly for us in the living room. He lived for music, and I hope I can pass that along to his grandkids.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuscle Beach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sow Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hikers y\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Never Divide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e All Her Fits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Supper Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Crash and Burn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heart to Sing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gutters and Beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006239105245,"sku":"804297838212","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3964140-2704581.jpg?v=1727225775"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-preachers-sigh-potion-lost-album-yellow-black-marble-vinyl-iex","title":"Matthew Dear- Preacher's Sigh \u0026 Potion: Lost Album (Yellow \u0026 Black Marble Vinyl) (Indie Exclusive Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn limited Yellow \u0026amp; Black Marble color vinyl. Twenty-plus years into his career, producer\/vocalist\/songwriter\/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically-formed, organically-delivered indie pop. His work traverses myriad musical worlds, belonging to none. But these fluid moves have not been without a few forks in the road, decisive turns, and what-ifs. Most notable is the pivot-point following Dear's acclaimed 2007 avant-pop LP, Asa Breed, in which he broke away from the 4\/4 grid of his techno\/house debut Leave Luck To Heaven and into something much more wild and idiosyncratic. Traveling between his adopted Detroit and his home state of Texas throughout 2008 and 2009, Dear amassed a set of personal, playful, looping guitar-centric recordings he'd consider for his next album. Given the new momentum of the hybrid electronic pop of Asa Breed which led to an opening slot for Hot Chip and remixes for '00 heroes like Spoon and Postal Service, Dear decided to shelf the material. He moved ahead to work on his watershed 2010 album, Black City, a steely noir set which earned him a Best New Music on Pitchfork and a worldwide tour with a besuited band. This \"lost album\" had a sound, a spirited country romp in the techno barn, and it had a rough title, a scribble on one of the CD-Rs passed to Ghostly label founder Sam Valenti IV, Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion. He never fully walked away from it, and merely kept moving down the road, waiting for the audience to catch up. Over a decade later, that time is now.\n\nPreacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion finds Dear unknowingly at an intersection in his young run, a burgeoning songwriter at his most freewheeling and unaffected. Dear reflects as he listens back, \"I love hearing how free and raw a lot of the production is. As we age, we get trapped in thinking our output or creativity needs to mature as well. Some of that is unavoidable, but listening to these songs reminds me to not think so much. It's important to be in that world without consequence from time to time.\"\n\nIn hindsight, there were hints of Preacher's sound on As Breed, but the set still registers endearingly out of step with his eventual direction. This was the first time Dear tapped so directly into his late father's influence as a fingerpicking guitar player in the 1960s and '70s and a gateway to the music of John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, and Emmylou Harris. Dear details: \"On one trip down to Austin, I took some of my dad's equipment and tried to lay out a song using what I knew about techno arrangement but use his guitars and various small instruments to layer a more organic loop-based sound. I'd say that was the beginning of this album. Realizing I could apply what I'd been doing in the computer to the other music I loved and grew up with.\"\n\nThe twang and tambourine stomp of album opener \"Muscle Beach\" gets right into it, with Dear's bluesy baritone narrating a country-folk tale of a young man on the run. \"Hikers Y\" is unmistakably Matthew Dear; building on a locked-in bassline, he delivers a dryly dismissive mantra as a metronome-like pulse that is equal parts porch music talking blues and minimal techno, unafraid to straddle those two worlds. \"Supper Times\" cycles hypnotically around a major scale loop that gyres off into minor chords skating underneath like a disorienting dream sequence; Dear's vocals hover luminously, obscured in the static as airy synth sounds percolate. It's a bait and switch for \"Crash and Burn,\" the album's most fevered stretch, all bent up guitar strums and slacker-pop harmonica chaos. Brushing up against touchstones like Beck's Odelay era smash and grab-popcentrics, this one doesn't escape unstung by the cactus of Dear's whiz-bang production hallmarks.\n\nFrom the mid-song piano break in \"All Her Fits\" (a rare Dear chord change) to the gloomy carnival-leaving-town pomp of \"Gutters and Beyond,\" Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion is filled with the reckless notions of an artist dashing the history of pop and rock, the twang of country, the build and release of techno. Dear is an auteur, and in retrospect, so many of his signatures crop up in these relics from his former self. Dear remembers him well: \"It's crazy how music memory exists in a very deep and indescribable tangibility. I know the person who made all these, and remember glimpses of the desk, or studio set up for each recording. I know who wrote these lyrics, and where they were mentally during that process.\" Revisiting this material now also has Dear thinking about his father's legacy: \n\n\"He also showed me that anyone can play, and perform for people, regardless of having albums or not. He was a very controlled and skilled guitar player but made it look natural and smooth. He had hundreds of songs in his repertoire and would play them nightly for us in the living room. He lived for music, and I hope I can pass that along to his grandkids.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrack List\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuscle Beach\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sow Down\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hikers y\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Never Divide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e All Her Fits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Supper Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Crash and Burn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Heart to Sing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Eye\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Head\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Gutters and Beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eShop online 24\/7 at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ghostly Int'l","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45006257651933,"sku":"804297838236","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/3964142-2704583.jpg?v=1727225120"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-bunny-lp","title":"Matthew Dear- Bunny [LP] (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMatthew 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 o shoot, Spectral Sound. He writes, produces, and mixes all of his work. He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none, now nearly 20 years into his kaleidoscopic career, with five albums and two dozen EPs plus millions of miles in the rearview of his biography. Bunny is the name of Matthew Dear’s fifth album. His first since 2012, it bounces into plain sight preceded by two slyly different singles in 2017: the moody, urgent \"Modafinil Blues” and the buoyant, blithe, Tegan and Sara-featuring “Bad Ones.” Bunny follows both modes, among others, parading down a rabbit hole of unhinged phrasings, dreams, and interludes. It saunters in the shadows; it stands brightly in the moonlight. Bunny is a dual vision of avant-pop; an artistic reckoning from a 21st-century polymath; persona splintered, paradox paraphrased, a riddle rendered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 804297832319\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Ghostly Int'l\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46974287806685,"sku":"804297832319","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/MzItNjg0MC5qcGVn.jpg?v=1771222800"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-preachers-sigh-potion-lost-album-colored-vinyl-maro","title":"Matthew Dear- Preacher's Sigh \u0026 Potion: Lost Album [Colored Vinyl] (Maro)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 804297838243\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Imports\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46974314315997,"sku":"804297838243","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4398939-3555168.jpg?v=1774448767"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-black-city-ghostly-25-year-anniversary-edition-transparent-silver-vinyl-lp","title":"Matthew Dear- Black City (Ghostly 25 Year Anniversary Edition) -  [Transparent Silver Vinyl LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the occasion of Ghostly's 25th Anniversary and Black City's15th Anniversary, Ghostly and Matthew Dear present a specialTransparent Silver vinyl repressing.Released in 2010, nearly a decade into his craft, Black City was awatershed moment for Matthew Dear. A steely noir set thatstraddled electronic dance and indie rock classification, earninghim Best New Music from Pitchfork and a worldwide tour with abesuited band, the album unlocked Dear's darkest and mostengrossing ideas to date. The love-obsessed songwriter of 2007'sAsa Breed had given way to a more existentially paranoid entity.Creeping disco tempos, cavernous atmospherics, and strangedistortions brought his signature avant-pop sound to a moodierplace. Black City wasn't to be found on any map. It was acomposite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperatecases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives, with flashes ofsweetness and hope.In Black City, nothing is at it seems: leadoff single \"Little People(Black City)\" is a nine-and-a-half minute disco odyssey,subverting it's gleaming electronic lead with eerily giddybacking vocals and cryptic, ominous lyrics (\"a frozen wastedheart \/ has died\", \"love me like a clown\"); \"You Put a Smell on Me\"is a sordid sex romp set to hysterically chattering percussion anda serrated synth line that will set your teeth on edge; \"MoreSurgery\" at first recalls the barely-there Krautrock of Harmoniain it's burbling minimalism, until Dear's chanted chorus of \"Altergenetics \/ to make my body glow \/ I need more surgery \/ there'sso much more to know\" sends the track hurtling into adystopian future.And yet, for all the foreboding moods on Black City, it's thealbum's sweeter moments that illustrate Matthew Dear'sgrowing maturity as a songwriter. \"Slowdance\" is a futuristiclullaby in which Dear articulates a lover's helplessness (\"I can'tbe the one to tell you everything's wrong\") over breathy, ArthurRussell-esque cello swishes; the album-closing \"Gem\" is anachingly simple, reverb-drenched piano ballad that ends with along, slow fade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHoney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI Can't Feel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLittle People (Black City)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlowdance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoil to Seed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Put a Spell on Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShortwave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMonkey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore Surgery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cp\u003eUPC \u0026gt; 804297812069\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormat \u0026gt; New Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLabel \u0026gt; Ghostly Int'l\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShop online at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow us on \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/darksiderecordspk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInstagram\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46974563320029,"sku":"804297812069","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/4396017-3311725.jpg?v=1762833370"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-bunny","title":"Matthew Dear- Bunny (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMatthew 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 o shoot, Spectral Sound. He writes, produces, and mixes all of his work. He straddles multiple musical worlds and belongs to none, now nearly 20 years into his kaleidoscopic career, with five albums and two dozen EPs plus millions of miles in the rearview of his biography. Bunny is the name of Matthew Dear’s fifth album. His first since 2012, it bounces into plain sight preceded by two slyly different singles in 2017: the moody, urgent \"Modafinil Blues” and the buoyant, blithe, Tegan and Sara-featuring “Bad Ones.” Bunny follows both modes, among others, parading down a rabbit hole of unhinged phrasings, dreams, and interludes. It saunters in the shadows; it stands brightly in the moonlight. Bunny is a dual vision of avant-pop; an artistic reckoning from a 21st-century polymath; persona splintered, paradox paraphrased, a riddle rendered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance - BT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46982932988125,"sku":"804297832326","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/1056\/6043\/files\/mbid-c88af303-c42f-410e-bab6-974bb97e761f-21992075735_thumb500.jpg?v=1769892767"},{"product_id":"matthew-dear-preachers-sigh-potion-lost-album-2","title":"Matthew Dear- Preacher's Sigh \u0026 Potion: Lost Album (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-plus years into his career, producer\/vocalist\/songwriter\/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically-formed, organically-delivered indie pop. His work traverses myriad musical worlds, belonging to none. But these fluid moves have not been without a few forks in the road, decisive turns, and what-ifs. Most notable is the pivot-point following Dear's acclaimed 2007 avant-pop LP, Asa Breed, in which he broke away from the 4\/4 grid of his techno\/house debut Leave Luck To Heaven and into something much more wild and idiosyncratic. Traveling between his adopted Detroit and his home state of Texas throughout 2008 and 2009, Dear amassed a set of personal, playful, looping guitar-centric recordings he'd consider for his next album. Given the new momentum of the hybrid electronic pop of Asa Breed which led to an opening slot for Hot Chip and remixes for '00 heroes like Spoon and Postal Service, Dear decided to shelf the material. He moved ahead to work on his watershed 2010 album, Black City, a steely noir set which earned him a Best New Music on Pitchfork and a worldwide tour with a besuited band. This \"lost album\" had a sound, a spirited country romp in the techno barn, and it had a rough title, a scribble on one of the CD-Rs passed to Ghostly label founder Sam Valenti IV, Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion. He never fully walked away from it, and merely kept moving down the road, waiting for the audience to catch up. Over a decade later, that time is now.Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion finds Dear unknowingly at an intersection in his young run, a burgeoning songwriter at his most freewheeling and unaffected. Dear reflects as he listens back, \"I love hearing how free and raw a lot of the production is. As we age, we get trapped in thinking our output or creativity needs to mature as well. Some of that is unavoidable, but listening to these songs reminds me to not think so much. It's important to be in that world without consequence from time to time.\"In hindsight, there were hints of Preacher's sound on As Breed, but the set still registers endearingly out of step with his eventual direction. This was the first time Dear tapped so directly into his late father's influence as a fingerpicking guitar player in the 1960s and '70s and a gateway to the music of John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, and Emmylou Harris. Dear details: \"On one trip down to Austin, I took some of my dad's equipment and tried to lay out a song using what I knew about techno arrangement but use his guitars and various small instruments to layer a more organic loop-based sound. I'd say that was the beginning of this album. Realizing I could apply what I'd been doing in the computer to the other music I loved and grew up with.\"The twang and tambourine stomp of album opener \"Muscle Beach\" gets right into it, with Dear's bluesy baritone narrating a country-folk tale of a young man on the run. \"Hikers Y\" is unmistakably Matthew Dear; building on a locked-in bassline, he delivers a dryly dismissive mantra as a metronome-like pulse that is equal parts porch music talking blues and minimal techno, unafraid to straddle those two worlds. \"Supper Times\" cycles hypnotically around a major scale loop that gyres off into minor chords skating underneath like a disorienting dream sequence; Dear's vocals hover luminously, obscured in the static as airy synth sounds percolate. It's a bait and switch for \"Crash and Burn,\" the album's most fevered stretch, all bent up guitar strums and slacker-pop harmonica chaos. Brushing up against touchstones like Beck's Odelay era smash and grab-popcentrics, this one doesn't escape unstung by the cactus of Dear's whiz-bang production hallmarks.From the mid-song piano break in \"All Her Fits\" (a rare Dear chord change) to the gloomy carnival-leaving-town pomp of \"Gutters and Beyond,\" Preacher's Sigh \u0026amp; Potion is filled with the reckless notions of an artist dashing the history of pop and rock, the twang of country, the build and release of techno. Dear is an auteur, and in retrospect, so many of his signatures crop up in these relics from his former self. Dear remembers him well: \"It's crazy how music memory exists in a very deep and indescribable tangibility. I know the person who made all these, and remember glimpses of the desk, or studio set up for each recording. I know who wrote these lyrics, and where they were mentally during that process.\" Revisiting this material now also has Dear thinking about his father's legacy: \"He also showed me that anyone can play, and perform for people, regardless of having albums or not. He was a very controlled and skilled guitar player but made it look natural and smooth. He had hundreds of songs in his repertoire and would play them nightly for us in the living room. 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