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	Matthew Dear Black City Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop 2010 release from the American DJ/producer. Black City can't be found on any map. It's a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives. Like most literary gothams, Black ... more » « less
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All Artists: Matthew Dear
Title: Black City
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ghostly Int'l
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 8/17/2010
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 804297812021

Synopsis

Album Description

2010 release from the American DJ/producer. Black City can't be found on any map. It's a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives. Like most literary gothams, Black City is a place to love and hate, as seedy as a nightclub's back room and as seductive as the promise of power. Matthew Dear, the musician, may live in New York City, but the Matthew Dear of Black City inhabits a sound-world unlike any other: a monument to the shadowy side of urban life that bumps and creaks, shudders and wakes up screaming in the middle of the night.

CD Reviews

Sordid, Obscure, Luscious...

Rafael Cova | Caracas, Venezuela | 08/18/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Sordid, Obscure, Luscious... Elegantly Corroded, Broken... at times DISCO, at other times Krautrock, Minimalist is a truly spectacular album, Matthew Dear shows the great musical maturity as a writer or storyteller, AMAZING!

An album full of contrasts, textures, environments (all in the night, but different), Matthew Dear is often in different places, does not like being enclosed, for that cause actual handing makes such diverse recordings, but with the caveat that everything has a thread, in this case the night (and sex too) is the common thread of this story, full of lust and obscene sounds delights us with this incredible material.

This album is filled with layers of sounds to explore, some softer than others and at times very hard, but very well done.

Accented vocalizations and deep (as night), come to mind, dark deserted streets, nightclubs forgotten in basements full of wickedness and lust. Full of great creativity and conceptually, by the end Matthew is going places being brighter but only to warn the equilibrium or balance between darkness and light, sometimes I think it is very sad but sometimes I feel the optimism want to experience, really a very beautiful work.

I am fascinated by exploring each sound of this album, each layer, each vocalization, every word, with divine metaphors.

An album to enjoy to the fullest, in which case the concept (Deep Night- Darkness) do not cause fear, simply spectacular.

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