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- Summary: Produced by Jerry DeCicca, the latest release for the singer-songwriter features guest appearances from Mary Lattimore, Marc Ribot, and Sharon Van Etten.
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- Record Label: Tin Angel
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock
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Dec 5, 2013Spare, affecting and hauntingly melodic, For The World is a timeless record, looking back only in a human, personal way--not to some lost golden age, but over a life lived, with all its ups and downs, losses and gains.
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Dec 5, 2013Ed Askew will continue to write, observe, reflect, and create visions and words. This result is timeless enough to remain there if one wants it.
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Dec 5, 2013Askew executes sad back-parlour arpeggios on a Hdusty, reverberant piano and his distinctive 10-stringed Martin tiple, his antediluvian voice as tremulous as Willie Nelson on a toning table.
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UncutDec 5, 2013Askew's voice and tiple remain distinctively sui generis, as does the air of fairytale enchantment about his songs of children's dream, birds and fishes, city streetlife, blue-eyed babies and brown-eyed boys. [Oct 2013, p.61]
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The WireDec 10, 2013His voice retains a high pitched vulnerability, but the urgency of his reports from the flipside of hippiedom have softened into the sound of someone more comfortable with their place in the universe. [Sep 2013, p.48]