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Thursday

Tonight, I am attending the release party for Asobi Seksu's new album Citrus at Joe's Pub:



Joe's Pub is a tiny, tiny little club, as the name implies. It can seat about 150 people at the tables, stools and bar in front of the stage, so this will be a rather intimate show. No stagediving, no getting up and dancing, just sitting, drinking, and enjoying the waves of beautiful sound from the band celebrating their new album.
I still have the self-produced version of their first album from when I saw them at the Vanderbilt in 2002. I think I might bring it, just in case there's a moment I get to talk to them and show them. Most people don't even know that there was a self-produced version and only know of the rerelease with new art from 2004.

Both Thom Yorke's the eraser and Xiu Xiu's The Air Force have leaked onto the internet. the eraser is quite pleasant, but nothing genius. It is actually more or less exactly what I expected when I first heard it would be a Thom Yorke solo album as opposed to a Radiohead album. I've only heard the first two tracks of The Air Force so far, but they're really breathtakingly fantastic. Much closer to the pop-rock sensibility approached on Fabulous Muscles, but still mysterious and deeply personal, and a hell of a lot more awesome. I'll listen to the rest later, but these are two of my favorite Xiu Xiu songs to date and I think this album will be huge.

MoCCA Art Fest 2006 is next weekend and its easy to tell from the people I'm talking to that excitement is high, though it doesn't feel real to me yet. Weird.