Matthew Dear Gets “Dizzy” on New Song

Matthew Dear has kept a relatively low profile since his 2018 album Bunny. That has begun to change: This summer, the techno producer released “New Drug” and “Head in the Clouds” for the French label Salon, his first tracks since the 2022 single “Talking Sleep.” Now, he is back at his alma mater label Ghostly with a formal comeback single. Listen to “Dizzy” below.

Of the song’s nocturnal soul, Dear writes in a press release:

There is a time of night, somewhere between midnight and dawn, when most people are asleep. That’s when I’ve made some of my favorite music. ‘Dizzy’ was born in that space. A space that lets me operate differently, from somewhere that feels dreamlike. For me, writing songs has to be a little out-of-body. I have to find a personality trait, or some part of my subconscious, and let that version of myself take the wheel for a while. When everyone else is asleep, it’s easier to do that.

‘Dizzy’ is a love song from the middle of the night, set on a dark two-lane highway, told from the perspective of someone caught in the cycle of coming and going from the person they love. The smell of asphalt cooling under the moonlight hangs in otherwise empty air. It’s neither humid nor dry, hot nor cold, living nor dead.

Dizzy. In love.

Dear wrote, produced, and performed the single, before Scott Lake picked up the mix and master at Subterranean Sound Studios. Since releasing Bunny, Dear has released an EP under the alias Brain and retrieved his lost album Preacher’s Sigh & Potion for a 2021 release, having shelved it in 2008.

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