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Asobi Seksu are a band possessing talent and ability far beyond their years and with Citrus they have fully realised their potential in a particularly short time. It is difficult to see how they will be able to better this sophomore release, but you wouldn't bet against them having a few trump cards left up their collective sleeves.
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There's plenty of pop tunes here, but there's also enough self expression and leftfield rambling to make this an album of real interest.
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Nearly everything about Citrus is so accomplished, refined, and downright transcendent that it could very well stand alongside Loveless as a modernized shoegaze staple.
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This is electric music in every sense of the word-- amplified, processed, and imbued with a neon glow.
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Citrus is an outstanding record because it doesn't fixate on what makes great shoegazer music but what makes great pop music.
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Citrus is as good a shoegaze record you will ever hear, regardless of release date.
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Where Asobi Seksu's first album seemed rushed, a little too experimental, and at times too loud, Citrus brings the right amount of noise, swirling affects, and sound balance.
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If this isn't the album you are blaring out of your car all summer long, you aren't having enough fun.
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One of the year's best guitar-rock albums.
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Although Loveless and Psychocandy are obvious reference points, this album actually succeeds most on its charming, candy-colored pop songs.
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Under The RadarFinds gossamer dreaminess in layers of guitar noise and static... and a giant scope of influences that trun from the usual Ride/Slowdive/My Bloody Valentine touchstones to The Velvet Underground and Brian Reitzell. [#13, p.83]
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Although Citrus allures with its dizzying waves of sound and airy melodies, the band never let those elements become tangential or spiral off into cul-de-sacs of pointless theatrics.
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While Asobi Seksu recordings have yet to fully capture their live excellence, Citrus is still an accomplished noise-pop album, one that suggests there is plenty of new life yet to be found in exhuming shoegaze.
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That shiver of foreignness adds interest to what is essentially a frothy pop sound, as does the occasionally mesmerizing distortion.
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Paste MagazineCitrus is the crossroads where My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth mingle. [Aug 2006, p.88]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 34
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Mixed: 1 out of 34
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Negative: 1 out of 34
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MerrittMJul 14, 2006I saw them last night. I got real drunk and don't remember much.
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Jul 30, 2023
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SethC.Oct 30, 2007Simply the most enjoyable album of 2006.