Last updated: 6 days ago
The Ashenden Papers is Jason Dezember and a rotating cast of friends making music they love in the Bay Area and Sacramento, California.
"...a life-long romance and testament to the rare beauty that is THE perfect pop song. ..These ear-bones hear a wide array of inspirations from the sublime - 60s baroque, early singles from Sarah, Creation, Flying Nun, Kindercore, Rough Trade and boy/girl harmonies that oddly reminds one of the band, Bongwater (really!) - to the more obvious ones, like Felt and Belle & Sebastian but also subtle hints of unexpected bands such as Aislers Set, The Chills, Biff Bang Pow, Orange Juice, The Church, and The Pastels, all in a non-cloying way."
-Dennis Yudt
"...there is always the sense that Dezember is intent on simultaneously discovering the perfect jangly indie-pop song and then contriving just that little bit of ‘leftfield something’ to muddy the waters. It’s almost as if beauty alone, can never really be ‘cool enough’. Fundamentally he is right. It is this fraction that makes The Ashenden Papers aesthetic thrive beyond the standard." - Janglepophub
"...a life-long romance and testament to the rare beauty that is THE perfect pop song. ..These ear-bones hear a wide array of inspirations from the sublime - 60s baroque, early singles from Sarah, Creation, Flying Nun, Kindercore, Rough Trade and boy/girl harmonies that oddly reminds one of the band, Bongwater (really!) - to the more obvious ones, like Felt and Belle & Sebastian but also subtle hints of unexpected bands such as Aislers Set, The Chills, Biff Bang Pow, Orange Juice, The Church, and The Pastels, all in a non-cloying way."
-Dennis Yudt
"...there is always the sense that Dezember is intent on simultaneously discovering the perfect jangly indie-pop song and then contriving just that little bit of ‘leftfield something’ to muddy the waters. It’s almost as if beauty alone, can never really be ‘cool enough’. Fundamentally he is right. It is this fraction that makes The Ashenden Papers aesthetic thrive beyond the standard." - Janglepophub
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