US electronic musician Matthew Dear, from Detroit, has released Dizzy through Ghostly, writing, producing and performing the single himself. The release follows his summer recordings for French label Salon. Dear describes a song made in the quiet hours between midnight and dawn, with a fictional narrator repeatedly leaving and returning to the person they love.
Matthew Dear, an electronic musician from Detroit, has released Dizzy through Ghostly. Dear is the new single’s writer, producer and performer. Scott Lake handled mixing and mastering at Subterranean Sound Studios. The release comes after New Drug and Head in the Clouds, which Dear issued through the French label Salon during the summer.[1]
Dear locates the song’s beginnings in the hours between midnight and dawn, while most people are asleep. He says some of his favourite music has emerged during this period. The quiet lets him work from what he describes as a dreamlike state, outside his ordinary sense of himself. In explaining his process, he says he looks for a personality trait or an aspect of his subconscious and allows that version of himself to guide the writing for a while. Dear says allowing that part of himself to take over comes more easily while everyone else is asleep.[1], [2]
The result, in Dear’s description, is a love song with a speaker caught in repeated departures from and returns to someone they love. He places that fictional character on a dark, two-lane highway in the middle of the night. Asphalt is cooling under moonlight and its smell hangs in the empty air. Dear describes this setting through suspended opposites, between heat and cold and between humid and dry air, as the character moves through the cycle of leaving and returning. In the refrain, the speaker describes feeling dizzy, with a spinning head, and associates that physical sensation with love.[1], [2]
Dear’s earlier catalogue includes Black City from 2010 and Bunny from 2018. Since Bunny, his releases have taken several forms: an EP under the alias Brain, the recovery of an older album and standalone singles. The summer Salon recordings were his first new tracks since the 2022 single Talking Sleep, ending the gap in new song releases under his own name.[1], [2]
Preacher’s Sigh & Potion had remained unreleased after Dear shelved it in 2008. He eventually returned to the project and released it in 2021.[1]
