Asha Ali
Hurricane
3NO Music AB

It can be said that all music is emotional, however, it is not always emoted as well as it could be. Such is not the case with this, the second Asha Ali record. Her absolutely gorgeous voice carries the overwrought, frustrated and desperate feelings that present themselves in destruction and disintegration. This album is about the dissolution of her relationship with the father of her child, and Asha Ali is telling you that story. It's an album of adjustments, of realization, a loss of naïveté. The lead single "Hurricane" lends itself to hope, "In a hurry" follows the manic nervousness that's dealt with massive emotional shock and in "The contract" Asha raises herself out of the fire and back into a new world, still full of uncertainty, but as a person, filled with newfound strength.
- Matt Giordano