Matthew Dear 'Asa Breed Black Edition' album

Tracklisting

01. Fleece On Brain
02.    Neighborhoods
03.    Deserter
04.    Shy
05.    Elementary Lover
06.    Don and Sherri
07.    Will Gravity Win Tonight?
08.    Pom Pom
09.    Death To Feelers
10.    Give Me More
11.    Midnight Lovers
12.    Good To Be Alive
13.    Vine To Vine
14.    Deserter (Four Tet Remix)
15.    Don and Sherri (Hot Chip Version)
16.    You Know What I Would Do (Deserter EP Exclusive)
17.    Down On You (Digital Only Bonus)

Matthew Dear - Asa Breed Black Edition

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Matthew Dear has been producing and DJing for more than 10 years now but even to those familiar with his music, either produced under his given name or one of his aliases Audion (Spectral Sound), False (M_nus), Jabberjaw (Perlon), the initial release of Asa Breed was a revelation. Having impressed the critics with his 2003 debut Leave Luck To Heaven, which received a uniquely glowing critical reception for an electronic album, even from pop oriented periodicals like Rolling Stone, Spin and Entertainment Weekly, it was clear, with tracks like Dog Days and the follow-up Backstroke EP, that Dear was pushing his moody, sexy minimal techno albums to new heights of accessibility with the inclusion of vocals and his ever maturing songwriting style.

With the release of Asa Breed, Dear went from hinting at his pop-sensibilities to openly celebrating them on what The Guardian called "an extraordinary, impeccable album of avant pop" and what Philip Sherburne called 2007's "most unexpected pop masterpiece". From the pulsating, steadily growing tension of the album's opener "Fleece On Brain" to the infectious, ecstatic single and crowd-favorite "Don and Sherri" with its dance-floor leveling chorus, the album "bristles with energy and ingenuity"[The Wire] but it's the inclusion of Dear's more personal song-writing style utilizing rock instrumentation that made Asa Breed such a "beautiful set of contradictions"[Anthem]?— it's not often an album containing bluesy guitar and brooding folk reaches #20 on Billboard's electronic charts.

Now, with the release of Asa Breed Black Edition, critics and audiences will be able to rediscover one of 2007's most unique releases repackaged to include remixes and re-envisionings from Four Tet and Hot Chip, with whom Dear has been touring the UK last February.

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Matthew Dear - Asa Breed Black Edition