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- Summary: This is Orenda Fink's second solo album, after stints with the bands Art In Manila and O+S.
- Record Label: Saddle Creek
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk
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Ask the Night is about the longing for transformation, for escape to someplace intangible but achingly beautiful. Its futile desire for transcendence provides the listener exactly that.
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Alternative PressSome may quibble with the sparse nature of the album; but it feels like a natural destination in Fink's songwriting travels. [Nov 2009, p.109]
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Ask The Night is a dose of a kind of southern comfort that my doctor might actually approve of.
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Ask the Night isn’t the Southern Gothic masterpiece it has been hyped as, but it is a nice slice of dreamy, fluid countrified folk that works well with Fink’s sensitive voice.
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All of this is a far cry from Azure Ray's work, perhaps, but Ask the Night is often gorgeous in its simplicity.
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Under The RadarOccasionally too sweet for its own good, Fink's atmosphere of perpetual twilight never fails to soothe, even as it unsettles. [Fall 2009, p.58]
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This is an album that suffers in the context of Fink's career. She is an obviously talented artist working well below the standards she's set for herself as both one half of Azure Ray and a solo artist, and if that makes for a disappointing album.
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