Matthew Dear is back in fine form on his new song, "Modafinil Blues". It's his first new material under his own name since 2012's full-length, Beams. Dear's inspiration for the track hews pretty closely to what the title may suggest; a bad drug interaction with Modafinil, a pill that is commonly used to cure narcolepsy. Dear takes the opportunity to take us on a journey through the incident, starting innocuously with a weightless, funky intro. It then builds over 5 minutes into a busy ending filled with skittering sound effects and blasts of percussion signaling the inevitable comedown. Dear describes it succinctly by singing, "What do we get? A sense of regret." One's experience listening to the song, however, should yield quite the opposite effect, with hardly a sense of regret to be found. Matthew certainly hasn't lost any songwriting chops in the 5 years since Beams, and "Modafinil Blues" is a sign of maturation for the artist, which should prove intriguing to witness when his next album does come out in the near future.
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