[Cover photo credit to Chad Kamenshine]

Singer/songwriter Matthew Dear has returned and shared the single “Dizzy”, his first new music since 2018, now available on Ghostly International. ​

When asked for more details on the “night tune” track, he commented:

There is a time of night, somewhere between midnight and dawn, when most people are asleep. That’s when I’ve made some of my favorite music. ‘Dizzy’ was born in that space. A space that lets me operate differently, from somewhere that feels dreamlike. For me, writing songs has to be a little out-of-body. I have to find a personality trait, or some part of my subconscious, and let that version of myself take the wheel for a while. When everyone else is asleep, it’s easier to do that.

He further added:

‘Dizzy’ is a love song from the middle of the night, set on a dark two-lane highway, told from the perspective of someone caught in the cycle of coming and going from the person they love. The smell of asphalt cooling under the moonlight hangs in otherwise empty air. It’s neither humid nor dry, hot nor cold, living nor dead. Dizzy. In love.

Written, produced, and performed by Matthew Dear, the song was mixed and mastered by Scott Lake at Subterranean Sound Studios. “Dizzy” is the artist’s first proper release since 2018’s Bunny, which featured “Bad Ones,” a duet with Tegan and Sara. Since then, there was the “lost” album Preacher’s Sigh & Potion. “Dizzy” returns to Dear’s darker sound, on the edges of Electronic and Rock that we find on his 2010 LP Black City.

​Dear started out as a Detroit-based minimal Techno artist, one who remixed everyone from Hot Chip, to The xx, to the Chemical Brothers, to The Postal Service. “Dizzy” moved back into that sonic vein.