Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever wondered how Leonard Cohen would sound in clubland? A bit like Matthew Dear’s Beams, perhaps. Not lyrically, of ...
Somewhere between the Ryanair redeyes, the Class As and the promotional T-shirts from record labels, dance music and style lost each other on the way to the club. When you see Ricardo Villalobos with ...
Matthew Dear is among the very small handful of musicians who’ve been able to successfully straddle the techno and pop worlds. Beams, his fourth full-length, finds Dear moving further to the pop side, ...