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Cruel Waters by Ash Ganley Ash Ganley : Cruel Waters.
 Masterfully nuanced aaa rock.

Ash Ganley's latest release, Cruel Waters contemplates the fate of the natural world in an age where technology consumes all that was once human and sacred. He stands as a country-rock prophet against the Sadducees of automated machinery and computer technology. It runs along the same conceptual lines as Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and My Morning Jacket's Z, however Cruel Waters uses organic sounds to present this modern dichotomy.

The exemplary "Lonely World" and "Paradise Fades" both acknowledge the competition between the sacred and the contemporary, but both are composed with a constant ear to alt-country influences and a toe in the alternative tub. In "Too Late," Ganley attempts to warn us of our inevitable doom. "Too late for science, too late for faith.. too late to save our souls, this is how it ends," he sings with breath-filled urgency. It is that kind of writing that draws the listener into the depth that this album offers. It reveals a great deal of focus on Ganley's part to construct such predominate concepts for Cruel Waters, while allowing it to come through with subtlety and care.

Still, in the face of Ganley's alt-country Armageddon, he perseveres because, like every great artist knows, this is an existence of poles - the good with the bad. Ganley does his best to show why he worries for our humanity with songs like "Only in our Dreams", and "Moonshine" that pursue the bright side to our end with country panache and swagger. Ganley's material adopts muses that show the dark, modern side of life and the other that Ganley wants so badly to save.
- Chris Galis, THE SCENE MAGAZINE, Ft. Collins, CO

Songs:

1. Lonely World
2. Paradise Fades
3. Only In Our Dreams
4. Wreck
5. Too Late
6. I Walk Alone
7. Trees And Powerlines
8. It's Over
9. Cruel Waters
10. Carry Us
11. Moonshine
12. Final Version

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 7/17/2011
Ash Ganley lives in Colorado USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Rock, Indie Rock

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