Asobi Seksu - Me and Mary

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4...according to our Phil on Fri 21 Nov, 2008.

Asobi Seksu makes bouncy quirky Japanese flavoured indie pop. Well I thought she did but their new single sounds less quirky than the other baz I've heard from 'em. OK so there's a few fuzzy guitars in there and there's an obvious debt to early 90's shoegazey fuzzy guitar indie. It's not a bad tune actually and the more I wade through the song the more I'm getting it. It's an innocent enough janglefest. I don't really know what that sentence means. Me And Mary is 7" only thanks to those One Little Indian folks.

Following last year’s rapturously received ‘Citrus’ (which spawned the fine singles ‘Thursday’, ‘Strawberries’ and ‘Goodbye’ and claimed glowing notices across the board), Asobi Seksu return early in 2009 with their fantastic and none-more-assured third full-length.

Produced by Chris Zane (Les Savy Fav, The Walkmen), the album is preceded late this year by the swooping, emphatic single ‘Me & Mary’. Backed by non-album track ‘Breathe Into Glass’, and rolling forth on a bed of drums and glistening guitars, it sees a soaring vocal performance from Yuki Chikudate (keys, vocals), who aside James Hanna (guitars) form the core of the band.

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