Ashe’s ‘Ashlyn’ Is An Eccentric and Effervescent Debut Album From a Giant Young Talent

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Ashe's 'Ashlyn': An Eccentric and Effervescent Debut Album From a Giant Young Talent

is a remarkably talented 28-year-old Californian singer-songwriter with melodies that skip from childlike simplicity to sophisticated complexity from one line to the next. The touchpoints in her music range from classic to contemporary , but there’s sometimes a “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”-like touch of music hall — it’s not hard to imagine some of her melodies sung with a jaunty step. It is a high compliment to say that she could make a fantastic children’s album.

Her songs often start with a naïve, conversational, even corny melody, but then they climb and dip and pirouette as she triples the number of syllables per measure and effortlessly jumps up an octave before bursting into a big, effervescent chorus. The songs might be sad or wistful or angry , but there’s a warmth in all of them, even the heartbreaking “Ryne’s Song,” to a brother who passed away last year.

Ashe has been buzzing for a few years, guesting on dance singles before releasing the long string of singles and EPs — including “The Moral of the Story,” a 2019 collaboration with Billie Eilish’s brother/collaborator— leading up to this, her debut full-length. Executive produced by Leon “Big Taste” Clampitt , it’s loaded with A-list hitmakers: two songs with Finneas, as well as contributions from Casey Smith, Noah Conrad, Jason Evigan, Tobias Jesso Jr.

Despite the top-shelf sophisti-pop assists, “Ashlyn” is clearly her own, more than slightly eccentric, vision: She’s a Berklee School of Music grad and the album is filled with educated musicality. The songs and arrangements shift deceptively smoothly from dense to spare and back, changing the scenery in a way almost like a Wes Anderson film, moving from one vivid backdrop to another.

With all its soaring strings, gently plinked pianos and earnestness, “Ashlyn” can be too big and emphatic and confessional, and at 13 tracks, it’s too long . But so what? it’s a whale of a debut album from a giant young talent.

 

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