Bunny

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You’d be forgiven if the thing that drew you to Matthew Dear’s first album in six years was the cover art: a thin, neon pink sheet pulled over the title’s letters like latex. It doesn’t scream sex so much as whisper it, which is a lot like Dear’s music. “Bunnies are cute, they’re playful, they’re disobedient, they procreate like crazy,” he tells Apple Music about the inspiration, noting the animal’s associations with Looney Tune, Playboy, and LSD. “They’re allowed to be a little of everything.” As a musician, Dear has always toyed with genre confine. Raised in Detroit’s techno scene (he still DJs and records under the alias Audion), he cofounded the label Ghostly International to release experimental pop and electronic music. His own sound—an anxiou, trippy mix of New Wave and club-pop—is sultry and sinister, with Kraftwerk intensity and Bowie flirtatiousne. On <i>Bunny</i>, his first album since moving from New York back to Michigan and starting a family, Dear is still his spooky old self but ever-so-slightly warmer, evidenced on two collaborations with Tegan and Sara (“Horse,” “Bad Ones”). But don’t get comfortable: Before long, the mischief resurfaces—on songs with Troy Noka ("Modafinil Blues") and techno heavyweight Ricardo Villalobos (“Before I Go”)—and sends you right back down the rabbit hole. .

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