Asobi Seksu – Hush (One Little Indian)
With their last LP, Citrus, Asobi Seksu threatened the mainstream with an incorrect shoegaze revival. In layman’s terms, critics heard reverberating guitars liberally augmented with feedback, and octave-spaced boy/girl vocals and then jumped to the nearest conclusion. This has continued to be an albatross around their neck, and one [...]
In a support role for Ladytron, Asobi Seksu showed that, still, they have incredible power. It’s easy to forget that they are a potent live act, what with their seeming inability to settle on a distinct line-up, but they show in abundance this evening why they really should be considered so. With their amps and [...]
Asobi Seksu – Me & Mary (One Little Indian)
The first single from Asobi Seksu’s third LP will do little to shake the wrong tendencies among the press to continually daub them with a shoegazer-revival brush, but to those with more than a minute to spare Me & Mary will shine as an example of very pure [...]
