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Quick one for the holiday. Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu released this single in 2007, combining a Ramones cover as the A-side with “New Year”, a selection from their then-current album Citrus, for a peak-seasonal mini-release. The following year, they also released an acoustic live version recorded in London for Bandstand Busking, one of the live […]
Japanese-American shoegazers Asobi Seksu‘s final full-length album was 2011’s Fluorescence, but their final release of new music came in November of 2012, with a Record Store Day release. It was a 7″ split single with Japanese noise-rock gods Boris wherein each covered one of the other’s songs. Appropriately, Asobi Seksu took “Farewell” from Boris’ 2005 […]
New York’s Asobi Seksu certainly had their unique angle in the mid-aughts shoegaze revival with their blend of dreampop and J-pop, complete with bilingual vocals from frontwoman Yuki Chikudate, but as the decade rolled over, their attempts to move away from the elevator pitch that made their early work so appealing yielded diminishing returns and […]
