Sampling The Ravenous New Americana Album Reviews

By Brian Nelson


Good music has a magical way of transforming a dull moment into something brighter. Writing a captivating song takes a lot of effort and time. Artists like Halsey are naturally gifted with this skill. The lyrics come almost effortlessly to such folks. The composer is supposed to play with the words in an artistic manner to bring out a resounding narrative. The best-selling New Americana album reviews suggest that their latest works are headed for great success.

The full name of this artist is Ashely Nicolette Frangipane. She coined her stage name Halsey from her first official name, Ashley. The singer-songwriter is in her early twenties, and she began her career as a little child. Her debut album debuted two years ago, and it went by the name Badlands. She records with the company known as Astralwerks.

The maestro hails from a remote town in New Jersey. The city of Clark is where she got most of her inspiration. Her parents are from different parts of the world. The mom happens to be the daughter of immigrants who had Italian and Hungarian ancestry. The father is an African-American. Her broad scope of culture plays a huge role in the type of music she produces.

The gifted artist is not only a singer but also a performer. The parents recognized her interest in music a long time ago. To that effect, they enrolled her in music school. Here, she was taught how to play various musical instruments, for instance, the cello, acoustic guitars and even the viola. In the mid-two thousands, she got a diagnosis of being bipolar.

People began noticing her talent on the different cover songs she did on Youtube. One of her most famous cover songs was the one she did on the favorite song by Taylor Swift. Her rendition of the song I Knew You Were Trouble attracted quite a significant traffic on Youtube. Soon after that, buoyed by the success of this cover track, she went ahead to produce her first song dubbed Ghost. She published the track on Sound Cloud.

The gifted singer has collaborated with many bigwigs in the industry. To-date she has featured on the tours and the works of legendary artists like the band known as the Kooks, Imagine Dragons, and even the Young Raising Sons. Hasley got voted as the most remarkable artist on the South by Southwest music Festival.

The reviews for her debut album Badlands are in a superior, special class of their own. The masses cannot seem to stop talking about how beautiful the tracks are. There are flawless in their arrangement and composition. Ashley or Hasley if you prefer continues to promote her album on leading syndicated shows like the Late Show by Stephen Colbert.

On numerous occasions, she has reiterated the fact that her music is a blend of the influences she got from her parents. On one side, the tracks have a tinge of hip hop from the likes of Two Pac Shakur and Notorious B. I. G, and they also have an element of Alanis Morissette and Nirvana from the influence she gets from her mother. She is a huge fan of Kanye West.




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