Matthew Dear's music is characterized by a healthy dose of playfulness. This was expressed on previous albums in bumpy techno and extremely funky dance music. Dear opens his album with a striking calmness with the seven-minute long Bunny Dream, an album that took six years (a remix album and house album under his alias aside). But then suddenly over half of that opening track the overdriven synths
… strike and we know that the blood is crawling where it cannot go. The DJ also reflects on his own life with Bunny. It produces a changeable but captivating record. At the best moments we hear his idiosyncrasy in which experimental pop bubbles up, like the two collaborations with . Elsewhere, Dear's music takes an almost meditative form, appealing to the concentration of the listener. (JvQ)more
