You Put a Smell on Me

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 200 copies! If Matthew Dear's Black City is an opus of bacchanalian futurism, then second single "You Put a Smell on Me" is its presumptive climax - an unblinking industrial march to the center of the brain's most neglected corners. Its drums are militant, its pace is unswerving, and the squarewave synths that start falling like mortar shells are searing and wide-eyed. Then there's the marbled voice of Dear himself, pent-up and sexually charged, beckoning you for a ride in his "big black car." It's the sound of staring down the part of yourself that you are most afraid of.