Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose POLL

Apparently she's left Warner Nashville.

New album's out today and solid -- drum machines!

starting my second time through and i was really resistant to it until I got to Drive and found the whole back end engaging and now the front end is growing on me. I may need to roll with it a few times, which is hard with the new Dawn Richard out... but I'm trying!

if you only heard the instrumentals you would never guess this was the new ashley monroe album. I like it a lot so far.

first track i was like “this is a great follow up to last year’s vanessa carlton record”

Yeah, its defining quality is that it doesn't sound like Ashley Monroe so that's part of what I'm coming to terms with.

Fave track thus far - and a good representation of her new style - is probably 'Groove'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_An3ovR5A

“silk” is the most beautiful song

'Gold' and 'See' and 'The New Me' are sort of the epitomes of what i don't like about this shift but I need to be more patient with not letting the few clunkers put me off the enjoyable tracks

what’s wrong with “see”

feels aimless and weightless and somnambulent

that chorus is from heaven tho

she sounds heavenly everywhere tho

btw, this came out last week and is on heavy rotation at chez forks. as good or better than anything on the album imo but has gotten zero attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT8DKJHniSI

"Gold" is actually the lamest song -- the chorus just...sits there.

I totally missed the news that she had been diagnosed with NHL a few years back, but it sounds like she us since made a full recovery and this implies (without ever quite confirming) that a new album is on the way:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/ashley-monroe-her-musical-fresh-171500939.html

I also missed the single from late last year “Over Everything” which (a) suggests a partial-but-not-total return to country; and (b) is lovely.

I found Rosegold a bit too deliberate in its shift at times; this feels a bit more comfortable while still occupying a pretty gauzy, atmospheric space.

Oh wow, didn't know that stuff either. Glad she's on the mend

https://x.com/ashleymonroe/status/1770813962164019203?s=20