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How’s Your Week? – Official Secrets Act
Popular music has its edges tweaked and caressed by the Official Secrets Act continually. They make it sound easy. This maxim, gleanable from this review of their last single, is what makes them interesting. It is PM’s sincere hope that … Continue reading
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Asobi Seksu – London ICA 19/2/09
With their beautiful third LP, Hush, released just days before this show, Asobi Seksu have every reason to be confident. They excel tonight, delicately pacing the set and balancing it with spectral, detailed renditions of new material and thunderous … Continue reading
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Asobi Seksu – Hush
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 … Continue reading
Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow
Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow (One Little Indian) Smash smash smash and it’s difficult to get excited. The limited charms that Official Secrets Act (terrible name, that) initially exhibit on first listen don’t do them justice. Drums … Continue reading
Asobi Seksu – Shepherds Bush Empire 21/11/08
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 … Continue reading
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Asobi Seksu – Me & Mary
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 … Continue reading
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