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The Ashtray Hearts - Free Election Records |
 | | The Ashtray Hearts are a six-piece ensemble from Minneapolis that plays what is best described as ‘apartment music.’ Taking elements of Americana, folk, alt-country and other influences, the Ashtray Hearts add eclectic instrumentation (horns, organs, accordions) to create their lonely, broken-hearted sound. |
 | | The questions that the Ashtray Hearts’ music has asked in the past, of who is being abandoned and who is doing the abandoning, who makes up the left and the leaving, are being answered on the band’s second full-length release, Perfect Halves. |
 | | That is, until the Ashtray Hearts invited me to eavesdrop at their worn apartment door, allowing me to digest slow, gentle tales of disappointment and regret that are centered on the heart. |
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