Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters is Mick Karn's second solo album and features him playing a variety of woodwinds and basses, as well as keyboards and drums. The songs are marked by plodding drum tracks colored with simple contrapuntal keyboard and woodwind figures: of the instrumental tracks, only "The Three Fates" escapes this martial treatment. The two tracks that feature lyrics and vocals (by David Sylvian, Karn's former bandmate in Japan) are the most memorable. They emphasize the interplay between Karn's sinuous fretless playing and Sylvian's sonorous voice to good effect.

CBSソニー移籍第一作である。前作「森羅万象」ではヴォーカルまで担当し、マルチ・ミュージシャン的色彩が見られたが、今作は従来のスタイルに戻り、ギターの松本正嗣(亭主)と共にキーボード中心のライト・フュージョンを創り出している。