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Ask the Night is about the longing for transformation, for escape to someplace intangible but achingly beautiful. Its futile desire for transcendence provides the listener exactly that.
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All of this is a far cry from Azure Ray's work, perhaps, but Ask the Night is often gorgeous in its simplicity.
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Ask the Night isn’t the Southern Gothic masterpiece it has been hyped as, but it is a nice slice of dreamy, fluid countrified folk that works well with Fink’s sensitive voice.
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Ask The Night is a dose of a kind of southern comfort that my doctor might actually approve of.
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Alternative PressSome may quibble with the sparse nature of the album; but it feels like a natural destination in Fink's songwriting travels. [Nov 2009, p.109]