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Article: ASOBI SEKSU.(Sound recording review)
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- September 1, 2009
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Hush
(Polyvinyl Record Company)
AFTER THREE STUDIO ALBUMS, the duo Yuki Chikudate (lead vocals, organ and synthesizer) and James Hanna (guitar, bass and keyboard) continues to successfully mine a formula that isn't at all formulaic.
Their new album Hush is sprawling and ethereal in one moment and intensely focused in others. There is the all strings-and-gossamer, piano-tinkling opening to a song, and seemingly out of nowhere comes the skittering electro-bloops, shredding rock guitar and thunderous, evocative drumming by Gunnar Olsen ("Transparence," "In The Sky").
Though Chikudate's wispy, spiraling leads define the emotional texture ...