Showing posts with label Ashbury Heights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashbury Heights. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Ashbury Heights – Three Cheers For The Newlydeads

Does this look edgy enough for you? How about the fact that the young lady (Yasmine Uhlin) looks like she’s about to strangle the bloke (Anders Hagström) with his own tie? Then there’s the dark greenish tint to the whole decaying cover? And the fact that the album title seems to imply that we’re celebrating recently deceased people? This album is unusually dark, because when people think of the word “edgy” they think of people and songs that are overwhelmingly angsty and depressing. The duo of Ashbury Heights utilizes only synthesizers to create an extremely catchy album that one can either dance along to or sing along to (or both if he/she is in a gutsy, edgy mood). Yet as much of a synthpop album as one can want, this is far too potent and punchy to be wimpy synthpop. In fact it's quite European catchy darkwave future-pop.