Ash Reed – She Said

Ash Reed comes through with She Said, an indie pop record built around the kind of conversation that changes things between two people whether either of them was ready for it or not.

This track sits on a clean, minimal production that keeps the focus exactly where it needs to be which is on the words and what they actually meant when they were spoken, with a vocal delivery that sounds like someone replaying a specific moment in their head for the hundredth time and still not being entirely sure what to do with it. The record has that honest conversational quality that Ash Reed has been building her sound around and it works here because the writing is specific enough to feel real rather than just relatable in a vague general sense.

This surprising artist has been putting out music across releases like I Love You and Nobody’s Coming that consistently show an artist more interested in saying something true than saying something safe, which is a harder line to walk than most people realise when you are still building your audience. She is the kind of songwriter who earns listeners slowly and keeps them for a long time because the catalogue rewards coming back to it.

This one is quiet but it sticks, the type of song you find yourself thinking about later in the day when something reminds you of a conversation you maybe should have handled differently.

Listen and Enjoy!