Ashes Grammar

General | Oct 2009

Reviews

DJ PJs
Reviewed 2010-08-26
A Sunny Day In Glasgow/ Ashes Grammar

Dream-pop, indie, shoegaze, electronic, with female vocals. This album is full of glowing, pulsating beats with ringing, orbital electronic vibes. A sweeping blend of female vocals, and ambient, dreamy drones. Very abstract, experimental pop with a new sound in blissed –out unhurried pop. Really cool album of soundscapes! Similar to Asobi Seksu, Atlas Sound, Memory Tapes, Mahogany ALL FCC CLEAN!
Try 4, 6, 7, 8&9, 11,12 ,13, 18, 19, 20

1. eerie, dreamy voices 2. dreamy melodic voices cont. 3. *bass and synth create melodic dreamscape with tambourines female light singing 4. ***electronic beginning with thumping drumbeats and explosion of rough guitar and vocals 5. ** dreamy, ambient sound picks up to a spacey dance beat 6. ***nice otherworldly female vocals over layers of synths, electronic beats, and hums 7. ***Synth opening, shakers, catchy drums, bass, hand claps 8. cool, quick electronic sound 9. ****transition from pervious into really catchy, cool beat with relaxed layers of dreamy sound, cool thumping ending-love this track 10. **very quiet opening, twinkling eerie sound-like wind chimes over “happy ghost” synth 11. **** darker, eerie, yet awesome mix of reverb, lyrics, and smooth blends of synth sounds, claps, and oriental-esque melody 12. ****really interesting catchy opening drumbeat to guitar beautiful light dreamy vocals 13. ****almost dream-techno-dance with long take-thy-time synth into funky almost a-tonal melody, to catchy upbeat vocals and handclaps, somehow it works! 14. very weird experimental sound with synths, tambourine 15. **is that synth accordian? or harmonica? nice bass and tambourine 16. electronic wavering sound, lower vocals, thumping beat 17. tambourine again with vocals and synth mixes 18. ***nice transition from last track, rustling noise, shakers, cool percussion 19. ***very bright synth jingling tambourine, dreamy overtones, whispers 20. ****perfect transition from last track, thumping beat relaxed guitar riffs over vocal melodies catchy and chill 21. burst of electronic disco (?) –esque techno 22. transition from last into similar style track with space-y synths, nice bass, to electronic explosion of drawn out synth-y sound

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Charting

2009-11-01 — 2010-01-03
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 3 1
Dec 27 2
Dec 20 1
Dec 13 2
Dec 6 1
Nov 29 4
Nov 22 3
Nov 15 3

Track listing

1. Magna For Annie, Josh, And Robin
2. Secrets At The Prom
3. Slaughter Killing Carnage (The Meaninng Of Words)
4. Failure
5. Curse Words
6. Close Chorus
7. Shy
8. Lights
9. Passionate Introverts (Dinosaurs)
10. West Philly Vocoder
11. Evil, With Evil, Against Evil
12. The White Witch
13. Nitetime Rainbows
14. Canalfish
15. Loudly
16. Blood White
17. Ashes Grammar
18. Ashes Maths
19. Miss My Friends
20. Starting At A Disadvantage
21. Life's Great
22. Headphone Space