| Ashley Shadow / Ashley Shadow |
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| Album: | Ashley Shadow | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Ashley Shadow | Added: | May 2016 | |
| Label: | Felte | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-05-29 | Pull Date: | 2016-07-31 |
| Week Ending: | Jul 31 | Jul 3 | Jun 19 | Jun 12 | Jun 5 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 01, 2016: | Viewer Discretion Advised Tonight | 4. | Jul 01, 2016: | Time Traveler In Shadows | |
| 2. | Jul 29, 2016: | Time Traveler In Shadows | 5. | Jun 17, 2016: | Time Traveler In Shadows | |
| 3. | Jul 01, 2016: | A Visit From Drum Tired | 6. | Jun 16, 2016: | Life Aquatic Blurred Views |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2016-05-22 | ||
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Understatedly addictive, slow-burning downer pop from Vancouver. There's a warm, slightly serrated feel to the whole record—acoustic guitars, blankets of synth, occasional metallic guitar low-end, subtle percussion if any. Ashley Shadow's gracefully emotive singing sounds a lot like that of Amber Webber from Black Mountain and Lightning Dust, which makes 100% sense because she turns out to be Ashley Webber, Amber's twin sister. She writes from a place of calm defiance, and her lyrics are direct and plainspoken but eloquent. This is a really special, moving record (and hopefully cuts across a wide range of DJ tastes). Favorites: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. Borderline FCC on 1. 1. (3:48)—BORDERLINE FCC (“p*****g your eyes into a blind mind”). Slow, chilling, cutting, dramatic, synth-heavy waltz. 2. *(3:19)—Medium-slow. Starts as downbeat singer-songwriter pop, turns into heavy, crunching western-gothic. 3. *(3:15)—Mid-tempo, lush, with a soft and driving drum machine beat overlaid with real drums. Totally beautiful and catchy. 4. *(3:32)—Slow, humid, minimal alt-country. “You could spend your whole life pretending / and never looking back to what went wrong.” 5. *(3:35)—Slow. Starts as an alt-country waltz and sinks into a wall of distortion and synth organ. 6. (3:43)—Mid-tempo, cruising drum beat. Dreamy, more overtly poppy. 7. *(3:23)—Slow, gorgeous washes of distorted guitar and organ. 8. (3:54)—Languid slowcore. Thick ambiance and very woozy, spacey synths. 9. (2:39)—Mid-tempo, loping, minimal, spooky. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | All For You | 5. | Blurred Views | |||
| 2. | Tonight | 6. | Another Day | |||
| 3. | Tired | 7. | Laws | |||
| 4. | Way It Should | 8. | In Shadows | |||
| 9. | Sun | |||||