Add Date: February 17
Artist: Asobi Seksu
Album: Hush
Label: Polyvinyl
Genre: Dream pop, shoegaze
Comments: This New York band's 2006 effort Citrus was a wonderfully big, wall-of-noise shoegaze record, borrowing heavily from Loveless. While the band hasn't abandoned its My Bloody Valentine influences on Hush, their first release for Polyvinyl, guitarist/vocalist James Hanna and lead vocalist/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate have veered in a much poppier, yet no less dreamy, direction. "We knew we didn't want to do 7,000 reverb guitars this time," Hanna says hyperbolically of the transition in sound. "So we stripped the sound down and built it back up from there." The result is a record that will appeal to fans of Blonde Redhead--for more than just Yuki's vocals--as well as labelmates Headlights, and that terrific new release from the Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Start with "Layers," "Sing Tomorrow's Praise," "Glacially" and "Transparence."
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