Customer Reviews
Autumnal Sadness - By: Dylan35, 03 Jun 2005 
The best music can make your tummy flip, & make you ache for every lost love, missed opportunity, broken bottle & slammed door. It's rare that a band captures that perfect mix of loss, regret, wry charm, & autumnal melancholy. The Ashtray Hearts do itin 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 & banjo, muted horns, brushed drums, simple but packing a punch that tears your heart out. "Still Shaking", with it's picturesin dusty frames & backyard musings, is a masterpiece of loss. A sadly beautiful album, which will not find a huge audience, but will find the right one.
alternative country at its' best - By: justine king, 10 Sep 2003 
I'd heard this bandin session on the radio 2 show with bob harris one nightin my car, & literally had to pull over & turn it up! - it'd be easy to compare them to ryan adams & a million others, but wrong, as their sound is truly all their own, sure, there's a bit of jayhawks, even a little red house painters, & enough melancholy to sink a ship in, which is why i love them - the songs are almost short stories, each & every one about heartbreak & longing, & aching....not remotely happy, butin a good way of course! - this Cd is beautiful, & worth every penny...I dont claim to know too much about them, & i dont need to...the CD speaks for itself....
