Foreverandevernomore
Brian Eno
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Clash
d. 20. Oct. 2022
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Nicolas Graves
d. 20. Oct. 2022
"Ashe is showing that she is one of the most gifted pop voices of her generation, with a knack for keeping mid-tempo songs engaging. Whether drawing on her tumultuous life or just the world she sees in front of her, she's consistently interesting and endearingly earnest. It's also quite clear that she's pissed off. If songs like 'Hope You're Not Happy' and 'Angry Woman' are to be taken at face value - and it's hard not to - then we're in for a fun ride ... An acoustic guitar underpins most of the songs on the album, and lend it a quality that will appeal to fans of Stevie Nicks to Shania Twain. The melodies are definitely very much still pop, but it feels like 'Rae' is part of what feels like a mainstream pivot towards folk music currently".
Women in pop
d. 14. Oct. 2022
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d. 14. Oct. 2022
"Across the 14 tracks on Rae, Willson explores growing up, relationships and feminism across a soundscape that embraces jangly country through to 1970s style piano ballads. The album opens with an instrumental intro, which is a sensual mix of jazz, salsa and a guitar line straight out of a 1950s Western movie. It gives way to the first single from the album, 'Another Man's Jeans', a glorious track which has strong elements of country and pop but expertly manages to not fall completely in either camp ... Ashe is an artist who creates music that is all embracing. It is a wonderful and creative merging of multiple genres that has a broad appeal while still feeling unique, special and niche. Although she has attracted over 1.8 billion streams throughout her career, she is an artist you can't help but feel deserves far more mainstream attention. With Rae she has proven she has makings of a music superstar, and it is undoubtedly one of the best albums of 2022".