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  • Summary: The debut solo studio full-length release for Georgia-based Ben Asbury was produced by Jarvis Taveniere.
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  • Record Label: Captured Tracks
  • Genre(s): Pop, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Lo-Fi, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
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  1. 80
    All we can say for sure is that here is a talent in bloom, the sound of ideas finding shape, winding out in all directions.
  2. Feb 28, 2014
    80
    Highly engaging and tactfully succinct, Axxa / Abraxas is one to share with your friends and lovers, a soundtrack to your groovy summer.
  3. Under The Radar
    Feb 28, 2014
    70
    Asbury's first more widely-distributed works as Axxa/Abraxas sounds like a lost psych-rock gem from the late '60s. [Feb/Mar 2014, p.70]
  4. Mar 10, 2014
    67
    It's a charming album from an artist with an obsessive/compulsive love for writing shambolic, vaguely psych-infused rock songs but it doesn’t, distinguish itself from any number of similar records from this sphere over the past few years.
  5. Feb 28, 2014
    65
    It's certainly an album that takes a little work to crack, and that work centres around Asbury's unique vocal performances.
  6. Feb 28, 2014
    60
    There's enough here to suggest a breakthrough is coming, but Axxa/Abraxas isn't it.
  7. Mar 3, 2014
    60
    An accomplished debut but surely only the mere beginnings of a promising career.

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