Dream's End is a 2015 album by Matt Bauer, pressed as a limited vinyl LP. The songs are set in an imagined landscape of barrier islands, mangroves and southern maritime forests. Fantastical creatures and sentient, shape-shifting pillars of smoke live there, and the setting lets Bauer give voice to his most raw and personal songs to date.
The music is more melodic, electric and rhythmic than his previous records. It builds on his earlier orchestral folk arrangements of string quartets and banjos. It also adds near-subsonic pedal bass, electric guitars strung as banjos, and treated and amplified bells and Wurlitzer.
The drums are layered in places and stark and driving in others. Bauer cites Brendan Canty of Fugazi and the layered drums on Cat Power's You Are Free as inspiration.
- Artist
- Matt Bauer
- Title
- Dream's End
- Format
- Vinyl LP, limited pressing
- Release year
- 2015
- Genre
- Folk
- Label
- Crossbill Records