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Ashes

Kyla La Grange

Ashes

Melodramatic alt-pop on the 24-year-old Watford singer's debut album, drawing comparisons to Florence Welch

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
ATC
UK Release date
30/07/2012
US Release date
07/08/2012
  1. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    The kitchen sink production means every second is full of drama, atmosphere and thunder, but sometimes more is actually more. A thriller
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    A sure ear for melody drags it all back from the brink of silliness
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Her star looks set to rise even higher off the back of an album that sounds wonderfully accomplished
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  4. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    Her voice is big and husky which, when combined with the earthy, roots-influenced music, makes for that almost pagan catharsis you sometimes get from Florence Welch and Bat For Lashes
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  5. 7.0 |   The Fly

    An unabashed celebration of escapism
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  6. 7.0 |   Clash

    A diverse album from a versatile performer, equally adept at gripping the listener with well-polished production as with a stripped-back heartfelt tune
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  7. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Occasional shades of overbearing melodrama and histrionics aside, Ashes works well as an introduction to an artist well prepped for some time in the limelight
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  8. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    All too frequently La Grange's debut degenerates into drippy hippy-witch wetness
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  9. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    La Grange may not offer a concrete idea of where female alt-pop artists are going, but she paints a lovely picture of where they’ve been
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  10. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Tracks such as Catalyst plot a steady but deeply satisfying course towards stadium-sized climaxes - epic bluster replaced with genuine bite
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  11. 4.0 |   Q

    Despite the overheated emotions, this powder keg is giving off no sparks at all. Print edition only

  12. 3.0 |   NME

    It is over-produced to the extent good music is ruined
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