Asobi Seksu/Boris Split on Polyvinyl / Sargent House

Hey Black Friday shoppers...better off staying at home and picking up this holiday/shop day single on Polyvinyl from Asobi Seksu and Boris who cover each other...it's a preorder, but hopefully you could get this in time for xmas for the stocking.

Asobi Seksu are one of those bands I missed somewhere along the way, I know they've been around for over ten years and combine a sort of shoegaze with electronics and their cover of Boris' "Farewell" sounds to be applying those elements to the Boris massive wall of sound, especially when this thing takes off. Shimmery elements float under Yuki's upfront omnipotent vocal andlike the original it takes time to build and even when you know it's coming, the payoff is more insane than you imagined. They make this one completely their own while changing it entirely....the way the best covers can.
Boris takes a glitchy hammer to backwards samples, and push "Neu Years" into a cavernous hard space. Whirring mechanics grind and flail around this double kick beat and dreamy vocals. Haven't heard this kind of electronic approach from these guys before, and it's a new side of density to their ever changing style. A single that pushes both of these bands who toured together into new areas.

Get it from Polyvinyl Records, or Sargent House.

As part of Record Store Day's Black Friday event, former tourmates Asobi Seksu and Boris will be releasing a special split 7".

Limited to just 1000 copies, the record finds each band covering a song from the other.

Includes download code for both songs + two tracks from each band's discography.

The vinyl was pressed in collaboration with Sargent House and is available for pre-order in our store now.

Pre-orders ship Dec. 3. Available in stores Nov. 23.

Asobi Seksu - gigantic single series

Now I don't know too much about Asobi Seksu, now that I'm listening to their myspace page I think I've heard them from somewhere. It could have been high school. I liked that band lush I think for a bit and curve, that was one tape that got lost in my car and I looked for it forever but it disappeared just as I was getting into it. It's very similar stuff, very comforting, those high pitch ethereal vocals, just barely discernable over the chorus effects, shoegaze.
Here they decided to pay homage to 50's girl groups and phil spector, even covering that song. But what really impressed me was the packaging and that they created a website for this single
the design of every piece of it is great....down to the single labels. It's convincing me to pick this up. I appreciate the length they went on this whole package.
Good stuff.
As far as the gigantic series...if they go this far on all of them, it will be a miracle...I will keep an eye on them.

Asobi Seksu
Stay Awake - Then He Kissed me
PS, US "Stay Awake" is a song they originally wrote as a 70s AM radio ditty that was eventually fleshed out into an epic post dream pop Spiritualized number. Incl. a cover of "Then He Kissed Me" where they experiment w/ the Phil Spector sound but incl. their own sound & texture.
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$7.25

Get it from parasol, weirdly it's not available direct from gigantic. They should have a subscription series, I like being suprised and not having to think about it.