Asobi Seksu live in concert.
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Asobi Seksu

21
critic concert reviews
experimental

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

68
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Based on 
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Critic Consensus

Based on 21 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Asobi Seksu is rated as a neither good nor bad live performer, with shows that lack distinction. Asobi Seksu concert reviews describe live shows and performances as eclectic, melodic, elegant, high-energy, sophisticated, and operatic.

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Latest Release

Perfectly Crystal (1 November 2022)

Artist Info

Genre
experimental
Origin
New York, United States (2001 - 2013)
Bio
Asobi Seksu was a dream pop band which formed in 2004 in New York City, New York, United States. The band consists of Yuki Chikudate (vocals, keyboards), James Hanna (guitar, vocals), Billy Pavone (bass) and Larry Gorman (drums).
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Critic Concert Reviews

Exclaim (Canada)

February 2, 2010
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The four-piece usually thrives on distortion pairing big guitars with soaring keys and singer Yuki Chikudate's vaulting voice to create a massive live show.

Dallas Observer (USA)

September 28, 2009
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Asobi Seksu Brooklyn-based and Japanese-inspired indie rock group Asobi Seksu played a few songs for a more-than-silent crowd of sophisticated couples and flannel-wearing men at Hailey's on Sunday night.

The Skinny (UK)

February 17, 2009
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Luckily the sound-gremlins soon retire and leave the band free to deliver a set of gorgeous shoe-gaze where tracks don't so much start and end as pulsate shift and transform into one another bridged by swirling synthesisers.

Exclaim (Canada)

October 22, 2008
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The album glistens with bright optimistic shoegaze twang and doesn't make one crave a set to see their music really flourish.

The Guardian (UK)

December 4, 2007
80
%
Now regrouped with a new rhythm section old college friends James Hanna and Yuki Chikudate have made their second album Citrus.

Music-News.com (UK)

October 31, 2007
80
%
Luminaire London on October 24, 2007

musicOMH (UK)

October 24, 2007
80
%
What more could you possibly want? A free CD and a badge from the support act before you’ve even entered the venue you say? Hoorah for Kontakte then who are happy to oblige.

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