Matthew Dear – Beams

Matthew Dear – Beams (Ghostly International)

Matthew Dear is a man of many facets: founder of Ghostly International, DJ and producer/performer under no less than four distinct aliases. Dear has said, ‘I’m about four to five different people at any given time. By allowing all of those different personalities to exist… the most pure and direct self can come through in the music.’ This statement serves as a perfect reference when approaching his fourth full-length. Ranging from funk to driving dance punk to thoughtful meditations, it could easily be the work of four to five different people. But rather than coming off as schizophrenic, Beams acts as a sort of prism through which one person’s myriad self is refracted into a varied and delightful rainbow of ideas, moods and desires.