{"product_id":"black-city-ghostly-25-year-anniversary-edition-limited-edition-transparent-silver-vinyl-lp","title":"Black City (Ghostly 25 Year Anniversary Edition): Limited Edition): Transparent Silver Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited edition 15th-anniversary Transparent Silver edition with custom paper obi and deluxe edition b-sides and remix downloads. Black City is considered a critical and commercial breakthrough for the Michigan-based 2 producer\/vocalist\/songwriter\/DJ and founding Ghostly International artist. Pitchfork named Black City \"Best New Music”: \"The versatile, prolific techno and pop artist crafts a dark, funk-driven record that may be the best of his career.\" Included in Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2010: \"...it's not too surprising when Dear takes Reznor's ‘Closer’ pulse out for a moonless 4 a.m. test drive on ‘You Put a Smell on Me.’ With Black City, Dear offers a precisely thought-out guide to losing your mind.” On the occasion of Ghostly's 25th Anniversary and Black City’s 15th Anniversary, Ghostly and Matthew Dear present a special Transparent Silver vinyl repressing. Released in 2010, nearly a decade into his craft, Black City was a watershed moment for Matthew Dear. A steely noir set that straddled electronic dance and indie rock classification, earning him Best New Music from Pitchfork and a worldwide tour with a besuited band, the album unlocked Dear's darkest and most engrossing ideas to date. The love-obsessed songwriter of 2007's Asa Breed had given way to a more existentially paranoid entity. Creeping disco tempos, cavernous atmospherics, and strange distortions brought his signature avant-pop sound to a moodier place. Black City wasn't to be found on any map. It was a composite, an imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives, with flashes of sweetness and hope. In Black City, nothing is at it seems: leadoff single \"Little People (Black City)\" is a nine-and-a-half minute disco odyssey, subverting its gleaming electronic lead with eerily giddy backing vocals and cryptic, ominous lyrics (\"a frozen wasted heart \/ has died\", \"love me like a clown\"); \"You Put a Smell on Me\" is a sordid sex romp set to hysterically chattering percussion and a serrated synth line that will set your teeth on edge; \"More Surgery\" at first recalls the barely-there Krautrock of Harmonia in its burbling minimalism, until Dear's chanted chorus of \"Alter genetics \/ to make my body glow \/ I need more surgery \/ there's so much more to know\" sends the track hurtling into a dystopian future. And yet, for all the foreboding moods on Black City, it's the album's sweeter moments that illustrate Matthew Dear's growing maturity as a songwriter. \"Slowdance\" is a futuristic lullaby in which Dear articulates a lover's helplessness (\"I can't be the one to tell you everything's wrong\") over breathy, Arthur Russell-esque cello swishes; the album-closing \"Gem\" is an achingly simple, reverb-drenched piano ballad that ends with a long, slow fade. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recordstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49974718398706,"sku":"GI120LPC3","price":8.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0850\/1621\/5794\/files\/206300-matthew-dear-black-city-ghostly-25-year.jpg?v=1787629414","url":"https:\/\/recordstero.shop\/products\/black-city-ghostly-25-year-anniversary-edition-limited-edition-transparent-silver-vinyl-lp","provider":"recordstero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}