FANTASTIC LIGHT, by Matthew 'Doc' Dunn

FANTASTIC LIGHT

by Matthew 'Doc' Dunn

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1.	Under Thumb 03:06	buy track
2.	Dusty 03:54	buy track
3.	The Crow 03:43	buy track
4.	Frozen Kisses 04:38	buy track
5.	The Ranger 04:16	buy track
6.	Camerawoman 05:48	buy track
7.	The Path 02:17	buy track
8.	My Love 02:27	buy track
9.	Fantastic Light 06:56	buy track
10.	In The Morning 02:42	buy track

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I’ve had the pleasure of spending the past few weeks with Matthew Dunn’s incredible new album, ‘Fantastic Light’. I wake up with the songs reverberating in my head and can’t wait until the evening hours when I can revisit it again. One of our generation’s greatest songwriters, a true believer who has already gifted us gorgeous recent works like ‘Rain, Rain, Rain’ and personal favourite ‘Upper Canada Blues’ on his own Cosmic Range Records, ‘Fantastic Light’ furthers Dunn's vision, distilling decades of craft into not only one of the most incredible albums of 2023, but a masterpiece of the 21st century. ‘Fantastic Light’ is ambitious in scope, with a cast of collaborators adding strings, ripping guitar solos (hello J. Mascis) and backing vocals alongside Dunn’s own prolific instrumental arsenal, that take the listener into soaring, psychedelic gospel realms that are full of romance, melancholy and longing, while never becoming cloying. There’s a depth of feeling across the entire album that reduces me to tears in its joy and profound love, both sonically, and in Dunn’s amazingly archetypal lyrics. These songs are now burned onto my soul, and I really can’t name a favourite track, such is the strength of every dream offering on this record. While I believe Dunn travels in his own cosmic orbit, naturally, the unfamiliar or curious might like to know similar touchstones. I hear echoes of Dion, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, Bob Dylan’s ‘Street Legal’ and even Scotland’s own Associates, which come to think of it, are some of my all-time favourite male singers, and Dunn’s soulful delivery and melodies place him among these greats. Dunn achieves something rare with ‘Fantastic Light’ in that it’s not only fully accomplished as an album, a macrocosm of life and death and beauty and heartbreak in all of its moods and movements, the songs are universes in and of themselves, that stay with you in a flowing fever dream. I imagine myself dancing slowly with a teenage lover, spinning into eternity for ever and ever, amen.

Heather Leigh
Glasgow, Scotland
October 2023

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released November 16, 2023

Produced, Arranged & Recorded by Matthew Dunn & Asher Gould-Murtagh

Written by Matthew Dunn

Mixed by Asher Gould-Murtagh

Co-Produced by Brett Zadravetz

Additional Engineering by James Matthew VII

Mastered by East End Mastering

Photography by Colin Medley

Performed by:

Matthew Dunn: bass, drums, guitars, harmonica, mellotron, moog, organ, pedal steel, vibraphone, vocals

Asher Gould-Murtagh: mellotron

J Mascis: guitar

Stephen McPhail: flute

Kritty Uranowski: background vocals

Brandon Valdivia: congas

Thomas Beard: cello

Cynthia Blanchon: viola

Chloe Chabanole: violin

Marielle Groven: violin

Jury Kobayashi: double bass

Aaron Lumley: double bass

Quinn Robinson: viola

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