{"id":2904,"date":"2012-08-09T22:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2012-08-09T22:05:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:05:48","slug":"matthew-dear-teases-forthcoming-lp-beams-with-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Dear teases forthcoming LP Beams with new single"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthew Dear<\/a>‘s fifth full-length is very close to being released. Beams<\/em>, the follow up to his 2010’s Black City<\/em>, drops on August 27th in Europe and a day later in North America via Ghostly International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Beams<\/em>, recorded in Dear’s home studio in New York and “shot through with equal parts optimism and uneasiness” as the press release states, “a thick-fingered electric bass gallops in atop a driving backbeat”.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s alright to be someone else sometimes.” said Matthew Dear. “I\u2019m about 4 to 5 different people at any given time. By allowing all of those different personalities to exist\u2026 the most pure and direct self can come through in the music. [The songs] may still be cryptic, and full of contradictions\u2014but in my opinion, that is pure, unadulterated thought in musical form. They are direct lines to the center.”<\/p>\n

To entice us even more before the release, Dear has shared a new single off Beams<\/em>, ‘Earthforms’. Listen to it now.<\/p>\n