Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
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Artist: Matthew DearEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Music Label: Ghostly Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Fleece on Brain
- Neighborhoods
- Deserter
- Shy
- Elementary Lover
- Don and Sherri
- Will Gravity Win Tonight?
- Pom Pom
- Death to Feelers
- Give Me More
- Midnight Lovers
- Good to Be Alive
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Free Music Review: STANDS ON ITS OWN
Hit: 5 Stars
You won't regret getting this album, whether you've heard of the artist or not - and I hadn't. I liked it a lot and grows on you as well, there's a kind of blues infused melancholy, dance swing that doesn't take itself too seriously underlying an industrial age aesthetic. The beats and melodies are original and appealing. Overall I think those who can appreciate a bit of electronica, a dash of bowie-esque pop, funk and even acoustic guitar won't have any trouble liking Asa Breed.
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Tech man Matthew Dear has spent the last several years dipping his toes into pop, and while Asa Breed doesn't exactly dive into the deep end, it gets Dear pretty well soaked. Initially associated with the Richie Hawtin school of Detroit minimalism, he's been diversifying his sound over the course of his prolific recorded output (he also records under the names Jabberjaw and False, among others) since at least 2003's Leave Luck to Heaven. But Breed is more song-oriented and accessible than anything else he's released, even as it rolls out the sharp-edged studio craft that has built Dear's reputation as a producer. Songs like "Pom Pom" are fractured new wave flashbacks while short and seemingly simple songs like "Death to Feelers" get deeply ambient, revealing new layers with repeated listens. Another trick that helps soften the record is the work done on Dear's droning baritone. An acquired taste at best, he wisely chose to give it a sharper electro edge, mixing it up in a Nick-Cave-meets-Gary Numan way as his lyrics bounce between nonsensical and sarcastic. Stripped down and largely acoustic songs like "Midnight Lovers" and "Vine to Vine" only add minimal effects, letting Dear's weird words drive the music forward. While some fans hoping for a proper DJ record might be disappointed, Asa Breed is clearly the work of a man who wants little or nothing to do with what's expected. --Matthew CookeDance & DJ Music CDs
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