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Old Numbers
Ashtray Hearts
Old Numbers
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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All Artists: Ashtray Hearts
Title: Old Numbers
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Safehouse Records
Release Date: 3/4/2003
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 789577109025, 803680995501
 

CD Reviews

Heartbreak & Harmony
Wade A. Ostrowski | Saint Paul | 05/10/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This sextet from the north country scenes of Minneapolis brings together a debut that tells of faded friendships, unrequited love, and the distance adulthood brings. The music, infused with the twangs and lilts of Americana, features layers of accordion, trumpet, electric piano, and banjo, creating a rich network of sound cut occasionally by a guitar solo that could have been filtered through an old radio and reverb-drenched riffs that peek through the spaces between verse and chorus. Clear-voiced and articulate vocal harmonies resonate and add further depth to the well-phrased and touching lyrical laments ("I gave away everything I promised you") as well as the shoebox-full-of-snapshots details ("We drove out in separate cars / Across Main Street past the country bar"). As the songs linger and pass from scene to scene, the mood they set is mostly quiet and pensive, but it is punctuated by collective crescendos and moments of raw, electric release. Overall, this first album breathes as a whole and strings together twelve songs perfect for driving throught the deserted streets of your hometown, wondering whatever happened to your first love and what you'll do now that your last is gone."
Autumnal Beauty
Dylan35 | UK | 06/05/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The best music can make your tummy flip, and make you ache for every lost love, missed opportunity, broken bottle and slammed door. It's rare that a band captures that perfect mix of loss, regret, wry charm, and autumnal melancholy. The Ashtray Hearts do it in style. Music has a long list of unsung bruised balladeers like Medicine Sunday, Sunhouse, Triffids, all of whom know the power of a quietly devastating three chord trick. As great musicians know, it's often what you leave out that counts. Spare acoustic guitar and banjo, muted horns, brushed drums, simple but packing a punch that tears your heart out. "Still Shaking", with it's pictures in dusty frames and backyard musings, is a masterpiece of loss. A sadly beautiful album, which will not find a huge audience, but will find the right one.

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Great Music for the down times
miradu | St. Paul, MN | 06/12/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Ashtray Hearts play great music, and the people in the band rock! They have a unique sound which gives them a kinda somber tone. If you aren't in the best mood, this is the music to listen to. It carries you forward. It sounds great on my Houseboat over the mississippi!"