Music for Your Work Week - Asobi Seksu

This week's pick is an album I downloaded from Emusic several months ago, but am always surprised and impressed whenever I listen to it. Citrus by Asobi Seksu (apparently Japanese for "playful sex") is a wonderful and generally upbeat mixture of alternative rock/pop that is reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine with more than a dash of the Primitives thrown in.Asobi Seksu do an interesting mixture of vocals, generally by their singer Yuki, sung in both English and Japanese. Much like My Bloody Valentine, they create a wall of lush and melodic noise using guitars with heavy feedback - the feedback almost becoming another instrument. Unlike MBV, and more like the Primitives, Asobi Seksu adds catchy melodies over the top creating songs that are upbeat and danceable.

If you, like me, have an Emusic subscription, you can download the album there. Otherwise, if you fancy DRM, it is also available at iTunes. Enjoy!

P.S. On a completely irrelevant note, I tried writing this post using Buzzword and while it was workable, it wasn't ideal for this specific use. It doesn't seem to have an HTML view (though Google Docs HTML is generally crap) and even simply copy pasting led to extraneous paragraph breaks. Oh well, we'll see how it progresses.