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ROCK OF ASIAN: Asobi Seksu

Asobi Seksu (which draws its name from a Japanese term for “casual sex”), an NYC-based duo perhaps best known for their loyal conviction to the genre of shoegaze, have stepped up their game. The band’s latest release, Hush, does quite the opposite of what its moniker declares–twelve tracks of newly-emboldened layers that aren’t nearly so modest or lingering as previous albums (How apropos, then, that the first track on the LP should be entitled, “Layers.”)

It’s almost as if we’ve witnessed the maturation of a pretty young woman: We met her at 20, pretty and promising, the wistful and baggage-free version of everyone we already loved and admired. And now she’s turned 30–with the same gentle soul, starry-eyed spirit and tissue-light temperament. But she’s real now; she is her own person and far more confident, edgier, and weightier–and somehow, now so much more alluring.

Listen here. Buy here.

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Filed under: Asobi Seksu, Casual Sex, Edge, Growing Up, Hush, Making Changes, Maturasian, Modesty, New Releases, Shoegaze, Tinkly Voices

Stuff White People Like: Not White People

Daily Intel reported Wednesday on a deadly disease spreading in this country that is as difficult-to-treat as MRSA: White People Fatigue (niveus populus fatigo, or WPF). It was described by performance artist Danny Hoch as:

“…a whole lot of white folks on the left – liberals, Democrats if you will – that have this fatigue about not wanting to do the work necessary to figure out their own place, and their own role in the scheme of things.”

Fortunately, we haven’t come down with WPF, although we have suffered in the past from an offshoot strain, called White People Fatigue-Fatigue (WPFF), which could be described as:

“…having this fatigue about always having to figure out our own place and our own role in the scheme of things while observing white people who don’t and are, on top of that privilege, drippy, listless, bored, feckless, glib, and prone to making middle-of-the-road choices, whether it’s getting all of their political opinions from NPR or embracing subpar music genres like shoegaze and freak folk or mistaking disaffection and earnestness for thinking and feeling.”

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Thanks, Jasmine!

Filed under: Cry Me a River, Danny Hoch, Diseases, Ennui, Freak Folk, High Class Problems, Malaises, Shoegaze, Stuff White People Like, White People Fatigue