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RR Upcoming Live Performances on MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC with host JASON BENTLEY Monday, October 22, After a six year hiatus with rumors that she'd given up on music, sultry singer Beth Orton is back and ready to perform for Morning Becomes Eclectic listeners at 11:15am. Wednesday, October 24, Famed Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has a new album with his post-punk outlet Public Image Ltd. He talks with KCRW DJ Eric J Lawrence about their upcoming [...]

Stereogum The first track we heard from Matthew Dear's soon-to-be-released Beams , " Her Fantasy ," saw the electo auteur delivering a dark techno-synthpop hybrid. "Earthforms" is even sparer and more straightforward; Dear sings a haunting, indelible melody over a New Order-ish bass line, driving percussion and slinky guitar. Listen. Read More... [...]

Mario Cotto Daytime disco juggernaut Poolside is doing it again. By it , I mean making everything they touch extraordinarily superchill. In this instance, Filip & Jeffrey have sauntered up to Matthew Dear 's phenomenal (and phenomenally menacing) single " Her Fantasy " and handed it a piña colada. The first single off Dear's remarkably solid  Beams LP, " Her Fantasy [...]

Stereogum Dapper dance music experimentalist Matthew Dear returns this summer with Beams , the followup to the excellent Black City LP. The slow techno of " Her Fantasy " is its first single, and today it has a balmy synth-pop remix by LA duo Poolside . You can download it as an MP3 file by clicking a series of links beginning with this one: Read More... [...]

Stereogum In the video for " Her Fantasy ," the excellent new slow-throb synthpop single from Matthew Dear, we see glamorous portraits of a cast of characters who look like they could've been pulled from the freakier corners of circa-1978 Studio 54. It's fun! Tommy O'Haver directs; watch it below. Read More... [...]

Stereogum Last week, slinky techno auteur Matthew Dear announced a new album called Beams and debuted his excellent new single " Her Fantasy ." Yesterday, the actual "Her Fantasy" single came out, and it included another non-album track as a B-side. "Crimewaves" is an example of the sort of honking, sexed-up dance-pop that Dear built his last album, Black City , from. Listen to it below. Read More... [...]

Stereogum On 20102s Black City , the longtime dancefloor adventurer Matthew Dear worked up a slickly dark and unique form of techno-pop. He'll follow that album up later this summer with another one called Beams . And on first single "Her Fantasy," he goes even deeper into the slinky underworld of Black City , creating a six-minute synthpop anthem that's equal parts glossy and murky. Listen to it below. Read More... [...]