{"id":3556,"date":"2011-01-06T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T03:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2011-01-07T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T23:06:53","slug":"music-review-let-it-all-go-from-christine-ashley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/01\/06\/music-review-let-it-all-go-from-christine-ashley\/","title":{"rendered":"music review: Let It All Go, from Christine Ashley"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Christina Ashley, <i>Let It All Go<\/i><\/h1>\n<h5>CD review by My Nguyen<\/h5>\n<p>Is less usually more? In the case of Christina Ashley\u2019s album Let It All Go which will be released this February, her delicate and sweet  vocals show resilience through a tough time in her life. As if it isn\u2019t though enough being a teenage singer-songwriter, Christina Ashley\u2019s home and possessions were destroyed in a house fire a few years ago and only being in the studio could help her through this crisis. Now Christina Ashley just needs to get through the over-produced tracks off her album to get to the often times melancholy and sweet vocals seen in glimpses throughout the CD. Christina Ashley\u2019s sophisticated style and talent is perhaps best showcased in her personal songs\u2014songs she had either helped write or performed herself. The young artist\u2019s spare vocals alone on piano is perhaps the most effective in this case. The album-titled closer \u201cLet It All Go\u201d is above all the most intimate song off the 17-track disc. With surprising range and emotion that wasn\u2019t seen until we get to this last track, perhaps this answers our question: less is probably more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinaashleymusic.com\/\">christinaashleymusic.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sketchinrecords.com\/\">sketchinrecords.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/c.ashley.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/c.ashley.jpg?resize=403%2C604\" alt=\"\" title=\"c.ashley\" width=\"403\" height=\"604\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/c.ashley.jpg?w=403&amp;ssl=1 403w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/c.ashley.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Ashley, Let It All Go CD review by My Nguyen Is less usually more? In the case of Christina Ashley\u2019s album Let It All Go which will be released this February, her delicate and sweet vocals show resilience through a tough time in her life. As if it isn\u2019t though enough being a teenage singer-songwriter, Christina Ashley\u2019s home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3458,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2010\/12\/19\/ad-new-cd-from-christina-ashley\/","url_meta":{"origin":3556,"position":0},"title":"[ad] New CD from Christina Ashley","author":"admin","date":"December 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"New Music from Christina Ashley.Find her on Facebook. christinaashleymusic.com sketchinrecords.com","rel":"","context":"In &quot;advertising&quot;","block_context":{"text":"advertising","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/advertising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":535,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2008\/11\/01\/new-music-reviews-by-ashley-macquarry\/","url_meta":{"origin":3556,"position":1},"title":"New Music Reviews by Ashley MacQuarry","author":"admin","date":"November 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.reviewermagazine.com\/music-reviews-11-1-08.html[New Music]CD Reviewsby Ashley MacQuarryConnor Desai Connor Desai's self-titled 6-track EP is an impressive debut. 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