- Record Label: Polyvinyl
- Release Date: Feb 17, 2015
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Feb 25, 2015It has a range of emotions, all showcasing Smith as one of the most unheralded songwriters out there today.
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Feb 12, 2015Even though listening closely enough on some songs reveals Smith shouting out the changes to his band, the collision of off-the-cuff recording techniques and intricate songwriting produces another colorful chapter of Sonny & the Sunsets' tireless and always beautiful work.
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Feb 17, 2015It’s an album that understands the value of both journey and destination and when the going gets weird, amazingly everything is right where it needs to be.
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Feb 17, 2015The cinematic versions of these tales would’ve flipped some wigs, but even as super-smiley psych-pop teasers, tunes like “The Secluded Estate” and “Alice Leaves For The Mountains” are pocket universes worth getting lost in.
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Feb 27, 2015Talent Night at the Ashram is ultimately yet another fascinating release by an artist whose ideas seem as boundless his ambition. It’s simply a matter of everyone else around him being able to keep up.
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Feb 17, 2015Talent Night at the Ashram, his fourth album, has a lot of that feeling: Why not?
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Alternative PressFeb 12, 2015These songs have enough lyrical detail to project some moving pictures onto you mind's eye. [Mar 2015, p.94]
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Feb 12, 2015Talent Night at the Ashram is grounded in a very palatable reality, one that harkens back to the band’s first two albums. But that isn’t to say this record isn’t without its surrealist moments.