Asobi Seksu Dials Down the Distortion, Prepares Acoustic Album

By John Lucas for the Vancouver Straight's straight.com:

Change is good, but sometimes the subtlest changes yield the most satisfying results. Consider Asobi Seksu’s most recent album, Hush. It hardly represents a drastic paradigm shift for the Brooklyn duo, which remains based around Yuki Chikudate’s charmingly ethereal voice and James Hanna’s tastefully textured guitar-playing (and occasional singing). The collection, the group’s third long-player, is nonetheless the product of a fresh approach by Asobi Seksu, as Chikudate tells the Straight.

“We went in with the idea that we wanted to open up the sound a little bit more and not dirty the songs up too much with 20 distorted guitars, you know?” she says.

Read the rest of the article here. Asobi Seksu played Soundlab on 09/16/06 with Besnyo opening.