Asa Breed is a balm for right now.   Full text...

The album is at times confused, playful, downtrodden and optimistic. Most important, it is the document of an artist reaching into the shadows and crevices of his own aesthetic, unafraid to bring his discoveries to the surface.  Full text...

With his new album, Asa Breed, Dear finally makes good on his long-awaited metamorphosis. It's not that the record is a straightforward pop romp: It's still anchored in Dear's lumbering beats, its rhythms cobbled together from misfiring drum machines and colored with barely-in-tune keyboards and yellowing room tone.  Full text...

Indeed, much of Asa Breed sounds like TV On The Radio with more exacting production and a more pensive disposition. The former falls in line the way it should in the hands of a techno producer, but the latter prevents Asa Breed from shifting any paradigms the way it might have.  Full text...