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- Artist(s): Jehnny Beth
- Summary: The debut full-length collaboration between Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and the Savages' Jehnny Beth includes contribution from Johnny Hostile and Primal Scream's Martin Duffy, Andrew Innes, and Darrin Mooney.
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- Record Label: Sony Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 2, 2021The pairing is as gripping as it is vulnerable, bringing these characters to life in a way that feels real and authentic. Even if this is ultimately the only collaboration these two will share, their survey of familial pain and heartbreak is powerfully affecting and thoroughly human.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 29, 2021Together they craft a devastatingly detailed fictional portrait of a married couple falling apart in a maelstrom of drugs, regret and the sort of silence that "murders the heart." [Summer 2021, p.87]
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MojoJun 29, 2021It's not easy listening, but profoundly engaging and redemptive. [Aug 2021, p.80]
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Jun 30, 2021Whether this is the beginning of an extended musical partnership or just a one-off, it’s a powerful and rewarding album. That’s especially the case for those who have been through the more challenging parts of the broken relationship mill.
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Jul 6, 2021Aiming to pin down essential emotions in a personal way, ‘Utopian Ashes’ succeeds beyond their imaginations – a crisp, entrancing song cycle, it’s unaffected feel helps it linger long in the memory.
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Jul 6, 2021On ‘Utopian Ashes’, Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth breathe new life into an old formula, and surface triumphant.
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Jul 2, 2021The more upbeat, jazzy “Stones of Silence” on which Beth shows off the full Patti Smithiness of her voice is a welcome moment of invigoration on an otherwise sleepy album.
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