Ash Reiter – Paper Diamonds (Music Review)
By Andrew Duncan • Jul 12th, 2010 • Category: Categories, Folk/Americana, Music Genres, ReviewsAsh Reiter
Paper Diamonds
Self-Released
Rating: 3.7 out of 5
Link: http://www.myspace.com/drunkenboat
San Francisco’s Ash Reiter brings a prominent part of San Fransisco into her vocal prowess and musical gliding. Foggy mornings overlooking the Bay, long walks up and down city streets thinking about nothing or window shopping, or a drink at a local haunt that has been haunted one too many times; these are the things that you picture in your mind when you listen to her music.
Mingling jazz elements with coffee shop floorboards, her singer/songwriter musings and innerchangable songs bear the scars of her personality. Where she started her career as a musician, the lo-fi folk meanderings are enunciated on Paper Diamonds. And for a debut album, it’s a fine listen.
“Red Airlight” sounds like relics of the past and some antique broadcast surrounded by a World War paranoia and flowing house dresses. “La Bahia” is a laid-back jingle that makes for soft, rainy day recline. It’s these moments that make Reiter glisten.
Her voice stands out as much as it is a comforting background to everything we feel that is familiar. Like a drifter drawn to a boxcar, she will lure you in with her melancholy ways. Wake up to it or wind down with it, most of these songs fit either circumstance. And those songs are the ones you will come back to.
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Andrew Duncan is a journalist who has migrated to the forces of academia. He has written for various publications including Chord, Heckler, Readyset...Aesthetic, and a vast array of alternative press contributions. When not roaming the streets of Indianapolis, he is either addicted to KXCI, making music, or striving to watch every film listed on IMDB.
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