Matthew Dear is readying his Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album LP for release on June 25th via Ghostly International. His newest effort for the label since 2018’s Bunny, Preacher’s Sigh was a shelved effort recorded just before the release of the musician’s watershed 2010 album, Black City. Reflective of the artist’s fluid creative development and the time he was spending between his adopted city of Detroit and his home state of Texas, the guitar-driven tracks were also influenced by Emmylou Harris’s music and the fingerpicking guitar style of his own father.
Looking back on this transitional period, Matthew Dear explains: “As we age, we get trapped in thinking our output or creativity needs to mature as well. Some of that is unavoidable, but listening to these songs reminds me to not think so much.” Known for his beat-driven production work within the realms of techno and dance music in general, this collection of songs finds the artist working out some of those genre’s sonic elements within a guitar and vocal-driven approach, both rural and psychedelic in mood.
Below, you can watch the visualizer for “Muscle Beach,” created by the Los Angeles artist Michael Flanagan.
