Multi-instrumentalist, label owner and producer Matthew Dear's latest release
Black City garnered critical acclaim and new audiences for the Texas-born, Michigan-bred musician. Dear, who moved to New York City last year to record the album, told the Freep he misses the Motor City, though he's glad he took the opportunity to live in the Big Apple. Matthew, the feeling's mutual.
Excerpt:
With
Detroit, I love the isolation, the seclusion you can have shacking up
in your studio for days on end, not having anything pulling you outside.
Where in New York it's quite the opposite -- that constant flow that
you have to detach yourself from if you want to be productive.
Read more about the making of "Black City"
here.
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