Ashes

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Based on 123 ratings
2016 Ratings: #552
February 15, 2016 / Release Date
LP / Format
Seeking Blue / Label
ILLENIUMProducer
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CabooseBeech
62

I guess this is an unpopular opinion but I wasn’t too amazed by this album compared to other illenium albums. I know. A lot of people like his early work more than his newer stuff but at the moment I think I’m the opposite. This album is honestly fine for what it is but a lot of the songs I think are just decent and a lot of them sound similar to one another. There were only a couple songs that I felt had memorable features as well as memorable production while a lot of the songs ... read more

MorFizz
68

a decent future bass album with some nice tracks, though some tracks were boring and mid. afterlife was such a nice outro, love the drop

also, the bonus tracks were buns

OctoMarkus
73

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 [𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟏]

Thank you all so so much! This would've been for 95 followers, but I was very busy these last few days.

We're now in the home stretch in the ILLENIUM catalogue. I won't even lie, I did procrastinate on this one. But all there is left is this project and the remix albums. Which I'll be honest, I'm not looking forward to.

ILLENIUM’s ... read more

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hwkn
53

I do have a very small amount of nostalgia for this album, but ILLENIUM was never anywhere close to being one of my favorite EDM producers and my opinion of him has only gone down over time. Most of what he makes I would describe as "polished slop", decently catchy if you turn your brain off but offering very little in the way of substance. But hey there's some decent outliers, and nothing offensive to the ears on here (unless you decide to listen to the bonus tracks, which... ... read more

6teenfrvr
80

Loved illenium back in 2016. Decided to relisten to this album today and holy shit this is genuinely carried and i mean CARRIED by the good songs

Reverie, afterlife, and fortress are like all time EDM songs. The rest of the regular album is mostly solid nothing bad rlly. All super nostalgic for me

And then the bonus tracks come in and its just 6 minutes of poop music 💀💀 why was ts included

nicklipaa
40

If I had to describe Ashes in a single phrase, it would be "coma-inducing." This album is the ground zero of the copy-paste Future Bass epidemic. Listening to tracks like Sleepwalker and Spirals had my eyes rolling so hard I practically sleepwalked through the entire front half of the record.
But the real crime wasn't just the sheer boredom; it was the offensive production choices. The lead-ins were terrible, and the drops were downright awful. Let's not even talk about the ... read more

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Track List

1Reverie
4:59
86
2Fortress
3:23
81
3With You
3:06
71
4Sleepwalker
4:10
79
5It’s All on U
3:24
75
6Spirals
6:01
81
7Without You
3:52
feat. SKYLR
70
8Only One
4:12
feat. Nina Sung
81
9I'll Be Your Reason
3:39
60
10Afterlife
6:04
feat. Echos
86
11Jester
3:01
Bonus Track
42
12Bring Forth the Pressure
2:45
Bonus Track
49
Total Length: 48 minutes
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