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Loney Dear almost done touring w/ Anna Ternheim & Asobi Seksu who played Joe's Pub (pics), covered Hope Sandoval

photos by Toby Tenenbaum

DOWNLOAD: Asobi Seksu – Suzanne (Hope Sandoval cover) (MP3)

Asobi Seksu @ Joe’s Pub
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“Brooklyn dream-pop outfit Asobi Seksu just released a 10″ anchored by “Transparence,” a standout from this February’s Hush LP. Before the clock strikes ’10 they’ll have a third release on the year by way of Rewolf, an LP offering acoustic versions of Seksu songs spanning their three albums, including a few b-sides and this cover “Suzanne.” As headlined, the source comes not from Leonard Cohen but rather the recently reactivated Mazzy star Hope Sandoval‘s 2002 album Bavarian Fruit Bread. The warmly narcotic, Velvet-undertoned original is classic Sandoval, but the reverent, acoustic and glockenspiel-tinkled cover is atypical Asobi, a band better known for its shoegaze atmospherics and coruscating waves of James Hanna’s guitars.” [Stereogum]

The Anna Ternheim + Asobi Seksu + Loney Dear tour is just about complete. Tonight (10/15) they play Maxwell’s in Hoboken, and then its second to last stop is Friday (10/16) at Bowery Ballroom. Bowery Ballroom is where Hope Sandoval just played her 2nd of two NYC shows, both of which included “Susanne” in the setlist. Download Asobi’s cover above.

Back on September 16th, Asobi Seksu played their own show at Joe’s Pub (acoustic). A few more pictures from that set, below…

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