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  • Summary: The latest release for the band led by Sonny Smith was originally planned as a soundtrack to a feature-length film Smith wanted to film.
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  • Record Label: Polyvinyl
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Tina, I saw you at the grocery store Buying something for your hair.... I'm not going anywhere, let me follow your hair Not going anywhere, I love... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Feb 12, 2015
    80
    Even though listening closely enough on some songs reveals Smith shouting out the changes to his band, the collision of off-the-cuff recording techniques and intricate songwriting produces another colorful chapter of Sonny & the Sunsets' tireless and always beautiful work.
  2. Feb 25, 2015
    80
    It has a range of emotions, all showcasing Smith as one of the most unheralded songwriters out there today.
  3. Feb 17, 2015
    76
    It’s an album that understands the value of both journey and destination and when the going gets weird, amazingly everything is right where it needs to be.
  4. Feb 12, 2015
    70
    Talent Night at the Ashram is grounded in a very palatable reality, one that harkens back to the band’s first two albums. But that isn’t to say this record isn’t without its surrealist moments.
  5. Alternative Press
    Feb 12, 2015
    70
    These songs have enough lyrical detail to project some moving pictures onto you mind's eye. [Mar 2015, p.94]
  6. Feb 27, 2015
    70
    Talent Night at the Ashram is ultimately yet another fascinating release by an artist whose ideas seem as boundless his ambition. It’s simply a matter of everyone else around him being able to keep up.
  7. Feb 17, 2015
    70
    Talent Night at the Ashram, his fourth album, has a lot of that feeling: Why not?

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