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MojoDec 22, 2011Despite its lulls, Ashes & Fire sounds like a new beginning. [Nov 2011, p.101]
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Nov 29, 2011Despite the obvious care for craftsmanship, no standouts emerge.
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Under The RadarNov 3, 2011Overall, Ashes & Fire is a delightful Saturday-morning House-cleaning music. [Oct 2011, p.96]
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Oct 25, 2011Its total lack of affectation is the album's biggest problem. It feels like it's sequenced to fit some expectation of what types of songs an album should have.
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Oct 13, 2011This mature Ryan Adams gives us 11 songs on Ashes and Fire that are perfectly fine, a few bumps but most of it is solid with a few that really stand out.
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Oct 10, 2011Adams's songwriting may be as sharp as ever and better edited than it ever has been, but Ashes & Fire makes some terrific songs sound impossibly bland.
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Oct 10, 2011It hasn't the shiver factor of his debut but there's pleasure in such smooth, elegantly crafted songs after his recent strainings.
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Oct 6, 2011There's barely a shred of truly memorable content here.
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Oct 5, 2011While it might not be a consistent classic like Heartbreaker or Gold, there's flashes of those earlier triumphs from Adams' career on Ashes & Fire.
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Sep 29, 2011It's a solid, not spectacular album with a few very fine songs.
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Sep 29, 2011Add it all up and you get a typical Ryan Adams release.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 0 out of 22
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