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Mar 11, 2019It's a brilliant debut and immediately vaults Ashworth and SASAMI to the head of the class of 2019.
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Mar 8, 2019As a body of work, it sounds eerie and complex while still remaining delicate and cohesive and it’s a bold and well-rounded debut.
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Mar 4, 2019Reinforced by the layered repetition that comes with recording on tape, this album finds its grace by turning heartache into cheeky, fork-tongued refrains.
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Mar 5, 2019Sasami is a gifted writer who is careful to develop arrangements that heighten the emotions of her songs. Listeners will relish the detail poured into her debut, its polish not too shiny to obscure the raw experiences that its songs are drawn from.
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Mar 11, 2019At times the album that little bit too airy. As skilful as Ashworth is in crafting delicately spun melody--the jangling harmonies of ‘Morning Comes’, or the gentle lull of ‘At Hollywood’--her full force and potential truly reveals itself when the shadows burst out and take over, dragging her shoegazey soundscapes to the edge of the void.
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Mar 6, 2019SASAMI is a promising debut by an artist who’s been part of the scene for years but has now started down a path on her own. With a gift for confessional lyrics, a dusky, atmospheric touch and an outside-the-box mindset, Ashworth has more than proven that this is the time for her to step into the spotlight.
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Mar 8, 2019Sometimes Ashworth sounds like she’s yearning to startle her own music’s hypnotically pleasant surface, and there are times you wonder if the gauziness of shoegaze is doing her a disservice, hiding her in plain sight. But SASAMI is a powerful first effort, and Ashworth is a compelling presence.
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Q MagazineMar 4, 2019Each song is like a little journal entry, lent emotional heft by Ashworth's use of repetition. [Apr 2019, p.114]
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Mar 11, 2019SASAMI feels like a warm friend you haven’t seen in years, ready to reflect on life: how you’d hoped it’d be, and how it is. It doesn’t feel so bad when you’re together.
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Mar 4, 2019Although SASAMI is a debut album, it feels more like the work of an artist whose craft is already honed--and that's because it is. You can hear the decades of refinement in Ashworth's songcraft, which makes for an absorbing collection of confessional songs both incredibly personal and widely relatable, on an incredibly self-assured debut.
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Mar 8, 2019There are some moments here that feel a bit too languid--but SASAMI is still the sound of an artist stepping into the limelight and forging their own distinctive sound.
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UncutMar 4, 2019A collection of songs that are superficially alluring but, bar standout "Morning Comes," rarely captivating. [Apr 2019, p.36]
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Mar 26, 2019Though on occasion the album can seem to retread the same ground, there are enough interesting genre exercises (see the lithe space-funk of "Jealousy") and dynamic production decisions to compensate.
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