Matthew Dear’s fifth album Beams was a masterwork for the avant-inclined singer/producer, combining computerized effects and live instrumentation in a way that brought new bubble and fizz to the man’s ...

Next week, Michigan dance-music veteran Matthew Dear will release Beams, his follow-up to 2010's excellently smoky Black City. We've already heard two darkly glamorous tracks from the album, "Her ...

As previously reported, electronic dark pop maestro Matthew Dear is releasing his next LP, Beams, August 28 through Ghostly International. The album is being touted as a more rock-centric release than ...

Matthew Dear's music has always been an inventive hybrid of techno and pop, but Beams, his forthcoming album, is his most indie-friendly release yet. "I'm definitely embracing more of my other ...

“Her Fantasy” took many turns along the way as it developed. I knew I had something special when I captured the arpeggiated synth progression that carries throughout the whole song. That was the ...

Several essential Gotham-based artists—Gang Gang Dance, Beirut, Dirty Projectors—have for their most recent records decided to take a break from the big, often distracting city, to head for the ...

Texas-born electronic music maker Matthew Dear has spent the last decade making the sort of percolating dance music that splits the difference between making you feel sexy and making you feel awed.

Matthew Dear is among the very small handful of musicians who’ve been able to successfully straddle the techno and pop worlds. Beams, his fourth full-length, finds Dear moving further to the pop side, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever wondered how Leonard Cohen would sound in clubland? A bit like Matthew Dear’s Beams, perhaps. Not lyrically, of ...