Asobi Seksu release 'Strawberries'

Following their recently released second album, 'Citrus', sold out shows across the US and a rapturously received debut tour in Europe earlier this year, on 12 November 2007 Asobi Seksu are to release a brand new single.

Called 'Strawberries', the One Little Indian released single is lifted from the band's second album and comes in three commercial formats, featuring the original version of the title track plus remixes by CSS, The Whip and Ulrich Schnauss. The single will be available on two red vinyl 7"s, with the first coming in a gatefold sleeve into which the second 7" will fit, plus a 4 track CD. It will also be available digitally through all digital retailers from eMusic to itunes.

Asobi Seksu are a formidable live act. Perfectly executing both the rhythmic precision and saturated ethereal melodies of their acclaimed albums, the band delivers a brilliant live performance. Never wasting a second, they blend pop sensibilities and poignant moments of melancholia with unexpected sonic explosions. The single will follow an extensive UK Tour.

Dates are as follows:

OCTOBER
24th London Luminaire
25th Sheffield The Plug (Club NME)
26th Brighton Pressure Point
27th Southampton Unit 22 (Club Night)
28th Manchester Night & Day
30th Glasgow King Tuts
31st Liverpool Korova (Club Evol)

NOVEMBER
1st Nottingham The Social Radar Night
5th Oxford Jericho Tavern
6th Cardif Barfly
7th Leicester Firebug
22nd London Legion (Sonic Cathedral)
23rd Birmingham Barfly
25th Ireland Dublin CrawDaddy
26th Belfast The Speakeasy
28th Leeds The Cockpit
29th Cambridge Portland Arms
30th London Camden Koko (Club NME)

Formed in 2002, the band is Japanese singer/keyboardist Yuki, guitarist/singer James Hanna and drummer Ben Shapiro. Asobi Seksu eschew flavour-of-the-month posturing in favour of a sound that is intense, emotive, complex, and thoroughly beautiful. Yuki's vivid stories of loss and heartbreak - sung in English and Japanese - soar above ebbing squalls of deeply textured guitar noise, swirling beauty and pulsating energy that would make Kevin Shields blush.document.write(unescape("