Anna Ash - L.A. Flame - [Vinyl]

L.A. Flame was mixed by Grammy-award-winning engineer Ryan land (Ray LaMontagne, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Henry). The album was tracked over the course of four days at Mark Rains Stationhouse Studio in Echo Park. It features Theo Katzman (Vulfpeck) on drums, Aaron Stern (Curtis Harding) on b, Lee Pardini (Dawes) on piano, and Matt LaRocca, Jason Roberts (Norah Jones), Brian Whelan, and James Cornelison on guitars. Ash wrote and self-produced this album, and engineered most of the overdubs at her home in Mt. Washington. It was originally released on vinyl in collaboration with Black Mesa Records in January, 2020. One of the deep pleasures of listening to a well-crafted album is the way it becomes inextricable from a mood or a moment, a habit of mind or a time of day. With her new album L.A. Flame, Anna Ash captures those long late afternoons when the sun is low but the heat hasn t yet broken, when you wipe the dirt-muddled sweat from the back of your neck with the condensation on the day s first beer. Last year, Ash s cover of Lucinda Williams Righteously was featured on an episode of Billions. And though Williams is a useful reference point for Ash s sound (see also: Sharon Van Etten, Tift Merritt), the songs on L.A. Flame reveal a singular singer and songwriter at work. Ash regards all with a gimlet eye: her songs tell of friends lost to love and loneliness, lovers who conflate real life and fiction, experiences that refuse to conform to familiar plot lines. She sings from within the messiness of quotidian life with a voice that can soar high above the song (but only to better survey the matter at hand). Please see MP3 listing for song samples. Track Listing: 1. Earthquake 2. Going Down Fast 3. Apologies 4. Stalemate 5. L.A. Flame 6. Destroyer 7. Wildest Dreams 8. Some Kind of Miracle 9. Required Ending

Anna Ash - L.A. Flame - [Vinyl]

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