New album Matthew Dear

Beam will be the title of the next Matthew Dear album that will be in shops next year. Dear released the ace Black City last year, and he will follow it up with an album next year that will feature, amongst others, the singer of The Drums. All of this will be preceded by an EP called Headcage.

Lousiville, 1923. Uneasiness had spread around the country. The government was trying to get its head around it, but wasn’t particularly succeeding. What had come over the birds and the bugs? everyone was wondering. On Tuesday the first reports had come in that poultry was attacking, picking away at people’s faces. The chickens were found to be especially malevolent. Wednesday it had worsened, and come the weekend it had become so widespread that even the Speaker of the House was pictured trying to swat away two bluetits and a maleficent crow.

Until someone found a way to stop them from doing it (many thought that years of only sharing dry bread with the birds caused them to revolt), people were trying to find ways to just get through the day. Someone had thought up a “headcage”, which basically was a cage you would lock your head up in and then the birds were being kept out and at bay. This worked in that regard, but as much as they kept birds out, it also kept you in. Isolation, lack of human contact (both physical as well as just talking), and malnutrition (people who were always rushing and always ate on the go now found this to be increasingly more difficult) suddenly peaked. Not to mention it seemed to kill the birds, figuratively speaking, for they all seemingly were laughing their asses of and pointing at those silly humans trapped in a cage.