P. Ahn

Sometime before the 2007 release of her EP, I chanced upon Priscilla Ahn's myspace page and sampled her music. After that, I eagerly awaited the EP release. I thought she was fresh and funky and sweet all at the same time and I loved her style! When the EP came out the music and the cover art (seen above) attested to my original response--she was fantastic! And with that, I began to count down until she would be officially signed and release her first album.

Now, I don't know when she was signed, but she released her first album under Blue Note Records about one month ago. I was so uber-stoked that I went out and bought the album on the day of its release! I got home, I stuck the CD in my computer (because that's how I and everyone else in America now listens to music) and prepared to rock out. I waited through the first song, which had been on the EP in a slightly better recording. I waited through the second song. And by the time I arrived at the third song (which had been one of my favorites off the EP) that had now been destroyed, I was disgusted!! I forced myself through the remaining eight songs and through the album again and again and again, hoping it would grow on me, pleading I would like it.

But such a thing would never happen. An artist who had so much potential, who has so much potential had been stomped on by a complete album. And the only hope I have left is that if she gets to release a second, it will be more like the self-released EP and not under the name of Blue Note Records.