Pitchfork recently included Fujiya & Miyagi as apart of its list of the Top 50 Albums of 2006, ranking the band somewhere within the realm of awesome-though-not-concisely-spectacular with a placement at #39 on the list. The group’s unimposing presence plays to the retro-pop crowd without even once attempting to lure mainstream listeners in by bringing sexy back. Ultimately providing a blunt disco-synth slap jack to the forehead of its unexpecting listener the trio glaze over its soft ambient sounds with hipster electronica (you know – the kind that ignores pulsating beats while still attempting to cater to club scene stragglers). But what keeps its members, David Best, Steve Lewis and Matt Hainsby, together you might ask? Why, love (of Krautrock and early ’90s electronica) of course.

Feb 16 2007 THE FORUM – London
Feb 23 2007 CRAWDADDY – Dublin
Feb 24 2007 CYPRUS AVENUE – Cork
Mar 10 2007 CHOP SUEY – Seattle, WA
Mar 11 2007 DOUG FIR LOUNGE – Portland, OR
Mar 13 2007 MINT San Francisco, CA
Mar 14 2007 CLUB NME @ SPACELAND – Los Angeles, CA
Mar 15 2007 CLASH PARTY @ KARMA LOUNGE (SXSW) – Austin, TX
Mar 16 2007 SXSW – Austin, TX
Mar 17 2007 SXSW – Austin, TX
Mar 18 2007 MERCURY LOUNGE – New York City, NY
Mar 19 2007 BARNARD COLLEGE – COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – New York City, NY
Mar 20 2007 MERCURY LOUNGE – New York City, NY
Mar 29 2007 TIMEWARP FESTIVAL – Mannheim
Apr 12 2007 DE KREUN – Kortrijk
Apr 13 2007 MOTEL MOZAIQUE – Rotterdam
Apr 14 2007 VIVA VELINX – Tongeren
Apr 20 2007 DEBASER – Stockholm
Apr 21 2007 BALLY – Helsinki
Apr 25 2007 CABARET VOLTAIRE – TRIPTYCH FESTIVAL – Edingurgh
Apr 27 2007 THE TUNNELS – TRIPTYCH FESTIVAL – Aberdeen
Apr 28 2007 CLASSIC GRAND – TRIPTYCH FESTIVAL – Glasgow

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