Matthew Dear has a new visualizer for the track “Gutters And Beyond,” off his upcoming Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album release out June 25th via Ghostly International. Recorded over a decade ago but subsequently shelved by the artist, Dear wrote the album during a transitional period in his career. Continuing to move away from the 4/4 grid of his techno/house debut, Leave Luck To Heaven, tracks like “Hikers Y” and “Muscle Beach,” as well as this new single, find the artist exploring loop-based composition, but with a more vocal and guitar-centric approach. Discussing the very personal nature of the lyrics to “Gutters And Beyond,” he explains:
“This is ‘sober me’ giving in to ‘drinking me’. I’ve been sober for 5 years now, but I’ve always gone hot and cold in the past. My type of drinking has always been rather predictable in its unpredictability.
What I mean by that is some nights I could have a glass of wine at dinner and go quietly to bed after, and other nights, dinner would wind up lasting 2 days and I’d be DJ’ing an afterparty for total strangers in a different city. I sought that life out from an early age, and prospered in the accompanied freedoms it often presented me. After a while though, it took its toll. Rarely in singular moments of clarity, but more in subtle jabs at my ability to maintain a good, productive and balanced life. So ‘Gutters And Beyond’ is really about the struggle, and apparently when I wrote this one, I was throwing in the towel to the addictive personality within.”
Matthew Dear is also readying a YouTube Variety series entitled “The Matthew Dear Show” in collaboration with his wife, Jennifer Dear. First debuting as a program on Seth Troxler‘s Twitch channel, Dream Access Television, look for the free-form episodes to include music and visuals spliced throughout with various oddball segments often filmed in the Michigan woods near the couples’ home. The first segment will debut on Wednesday, June 16th at 3 pm EDT, just ahead of the album’s release.
