Listen: Matthew Dear Plans New Album Release, Reveals New Track

Matthew Dear has revealed plans to release a near album later this year.

The full length effort, entitled ‘Beams’ will be released on 27th August via Ghostly International and will be available on CD, digital download and vinyl.

You can preview the follow up to 2010’s Black City now with new track ‘Her Fantasy’, available to listen to below.

Of his fourth album, Dear says “I try to write straight forward pop music but it always comes out askew and off-kilter. I will say that ‘Beams’ is a turn toward the proverbial light. The songs on this album are the most honest I’ve written yet. Most of them are still entwined in a cryptic lyrical mesh that I won’t figure out for another few years or so, but trust me, the mesh is honest.”

‘Beams’ was recorded in Dear’s home studio and mixed at Nicolas Vernhes’ (Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Deerhunter) Rare Book Room studios in Brooklyn. It is expected that he will confirm plans for a full UK tour soon.

Listen to ‘Her Fantasy’ now: