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Matthew Dear has a new album out ("Beams") and it's a quite good one. I'm an old-line Matthew Dear fan. I'd been buying (mostly from Amazon) and listening to electronic music (Chemical Brothers, Orbital, The Prodigy and many others) and I came across a small note in Rolling Stone Magazine labeling Matthew Dear's "Leave Luck to Heaven" as one of the best CDs of the year (2003). Well, I just had to have it. I was blown away. It was so good I wrote my first Amazon Review (on Christmas Day of 2003) just to tell other people about this wonderful new artist. Nine years have now gone by and Dear has turned out quite a library.
I would regard Matthew Dear as one of my top three electronic composers (Dear, deadmau5 and Daft Punk, not necessarily in that order) and a musical genius in his own way. I'd subdivide his compositions into two parts: 1. Lyrics and vocals, and 2. The "instrumental" part. I tend to not particularly care for his lyrics and vocals. Some are okay, but most are drab and dreary monotones and I have difficulty understanding what he is trying to say. Of course, there's no lyric sheet so that I might understand them in that way. On the other hand, the "instrumental" parts of his compositions are brilliant. All of his "Matthew Dear" offerings tend to have vocal and lyrics to one degree or another, but he also records under "Audion" ("Suckfish") and two albums under the moniker of "False." These Audion/False offerings are just brilliant and if you ever wonder what Matthew Dear can do as a purely electronic composer, I'd suggest giving them a listen. Meanwhile, I'm talking here of his latest "Matthew Dear" Album.
What's with Dear and the naming of his songs? I have difficulty understanding the songs and then the short titles seem to make little to no sense. To compound the matter, Dear refers to his tracks as A1, A2, A3 and so forth rather than the numerical designations and lists them horizontally rather than vertically. So I have to translate the letters/numbers to what my player is reading out. Well, okay, I can do that with a little extra effort. But then how is it that one song, Ahead of Myself, has very clear lyrics and is easy to pick out on the listing of songs as C2 and that translates out as track #8 on my CD player. What's the point with all this hocus-pocus? Admittedly, Dear can be somewhat humorous with his music. Is this just a little extension of his humor?
The "Beams" album is rather uniform in quality. However, if I had to pick out the songs I most enjoyed they would be "Her Fantasy," "Head Cage," "Fighting is Futile" and "Overtime." To me, one song stood out as the best and that would be "Do the Right Thing." It's one of his best vocals, but I think if this particular song had the right guest vocalist it could be a top ten song. I might add, that mostly I listen to Matthew Dear's music for the backgrounds and, in this respect, all of the songs are quite good.
Well, in my opinion, "Beam" is the best Matthew Dear album (not counting the Audion, False or remix albums) since "Leave Luck to Heaven." Strangely enough, I think the latter is the better album. Okay, I'll give the "Beams" recording 4.5 stars, but I have no way of doing that. However, it's easy to round it up to five stars.
Gary Peterson
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Gary Peterson
Best Matthew Dear Album Since "Leave Luck To Heaven."
2012年9月18日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
comradelouise
Funky stuff
2013年6月8日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Maurice Laut-Lamento
Mr. Dear, machen sie nur so weiter, dann könnten Sie der Bowie der Jetztzeit werden.
2012年12月2日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Wolfgang Schmitz
tolles cover und toller inhalt
2013年4月10日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
DannyP
A bit of a let down
2012年8月30日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
