Asobi Seksu
Hush

"Dream pop" is a term that gets slapped on any act that incorporates ambient elements or lets instruments obscure the vocals. I can understand the urg...

Asobi Seksu (Japanese for ‘casual sex’), from New York City, could have fooled me. Having paid little attention to their last two albums and not takin...

A step in a new direction, Asobi Seksu's third album Hush diverges from the heavy "shoegazer" attitude of their sophomore album, Citrus, to embrace a ...

With their last LP, Citrus, Asobi Seksu threatened the mainstream as pioneers of the shoegaze revival of recent years. In layman’s terms, critics hear...

"Hush was written while we felt destroyed." Nothing said about Asobi Seksu's third album Hush can better encapsulate the mood of the album than that ...

Album three from New Yorkers Asobi Seksu finds the central duo of James Hanna (guitars) and Yuki Chikudate (vocals, keys) expanding their shoegaze-ech...

To the culturally ignorant, Asobi Seksu may sound like the name of a Japanese singer-songwriter or perhaps a Japanese punk band. And though the monike...

When a band's name means 'casual sex' in their female vocalist’s native tongue of Japanese, it’s not immediately fathomable as to what their music cou...

* Asobi Seksu is the colloquial translation for “playful sex” in Japanese. * Asobi Seksu's lead vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate got standing ovat...

Reviewing this album has been one of the more frustrating recent listening / writing experiences.  Each time I have listened to it (and, having had i...