“Formerly Cherry Glazerr’s synth player, Sasami Ashworth has tried her hand at a fair few things over the years. In addition to scoring orchestral arrangements for films and commercials, she’s also a classically trained French horn player, and spent a valuable spell as a primary school teacher. “If you can keep, like, 30 kids with tambourines entertained,” she once joked in a press release, “doing ”
“Sasami Ashworth is coming into her own as a solo artist following several years spent collaborating with myriad bands, most notably Cherry Glazerr. Her understated, yet powerful, debut, Sasami, is a record of instrumental detail and quietly weighty lyrics that stem from processing a variety of relationship changes over the course of a year. Ashworth balances noisier guitar with clever melodies o”
“Sasami Ashworth's self-titled LP is a remarkable, distinctive debut”
“Sasami Ashworth’s debut union of synthesizer decay and guitar reverb that embodies shoegaze’s supernatural ability to conjure sadness from the void.”
“Sasami Ashworth had plenty of time to think during her year-long tour playing keys and guitar with Cherry Glazerr. It provided her with a period of time to write the ten tracks that comprise her debut album; tracks that depict an individual at times riddled with resentment, and at others seeking and perhaps achieving catharsis. “I was a window into something you didn’t like/ So you blamed it on m”
