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Oct 30, 2017When the album is taken as a whole, its full beauty is floodlit--a rare experience in the age of singles.
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Oct 25, 2017Their willingness to embrace worldly influences--and infuse their own urbanity--into their arrangements is crucial with regards to enabling the spirited reveries to accommodate the twins’ extrasensory wordplay, bringing a stability to the arbitrary grooves.
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Oct 25, 2017Ash is an album that captures this exact moment in time and does so with unquestionable virtuosity.
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Oct 19, 2017Ash serves as a stirring, reflective statement in uncertain times. Russell’s production throughout is outstanding too.
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Oct 4, 2017At first, Ibeyi’s bright rhythms can feel deceptively stable, their harmonies uninhibited as they dip into dissonance, but they are deliberate in revealing the depth of their sadness.
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Oct 3, 2017Ash doesn't feel as world-shifting or momentous as their debut, but operates on a more intimate level.
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Oct 2, 2017It grows and grows with each listen, and though it has less of an immediate impact than their debut, it has a true sense of journey through its beginning, middle and end, an element often disregarded in an industry gluttonously obsessed with hit singles.
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Oct 2, 2017For all the just-so production, sirens and guests, the Diazes haven’t entirely sacrificed the Yoruba spirituality and batá drumming that made their debut so distinctive.
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Q MagazineSep 29, 2017Sampling Michelle Obama on No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms feels glib, while Vale aspires to Solange-like authority but, unlike their voices never quite strikes the right note. [Nov 2017, p.111]
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Sep 29, 2017This message of positivity, strength and optimism is one that is weaved throughout each track on their new album Ash.
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Sep 29, 2017The results are magnificent.
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Sep 29, 2017In the end, Ash is many things: militant, vulnerable, and tender; it is urgent yet unhurried, its sharp edges unapologetically exposed. It is rooted in struggles and seeks victory, not deliverance. It is not only memorable, but indomitable and beautiful.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 2 out of 16
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Oct 9, 2017