Free All Angels
7/5/2002, LAUNCH, Rob O'Connor
Bands of Anglo origin have their problems. They can be successful on their side of the pond by performing intelligent--some might say clever--songs that piddle past in a...
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Free All Angels
7/13/2005, AMG
This is a happy kick, with big guitars and big attack and onrushing energy, and it's no tedious retro punk record, either. Seven years out of high school, and high a-top the...
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Intergalactic Sonic 7's/Cosmic Debris
7/13/2005, AMG
Import? Is that all for this fabulous singles LP? Are they crazy? While the last two LPs have been pretty damn great, Ash has often seemed like a punky 2000s version of a...
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Trailer
9/12/1995, LAUNCH, Janiss Garza
"Guaranteed Real Teenagers" the CD sleeve announces, and that kind of cutesy kitsch is sprinkled throughout Ash's first full-length. It's very punkish, which seems to come...
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Trailer
7/13/2005, AMG
Imagine classic punk maneuvers crossed with Nirvana- and Dinosaur Jr.-style leanings, goosed by a bolt of Mega City Four, and you've got this Irish trio's reference points....
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Nu-Clear Sounds
7/13/2005, AMG
While Nu-Clear Sounds lacks the immediate appeal of Ash's previous outing, 1977, over the course of repeated listens it emerges as the group's most bracing effort to date;...
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1977
6/11/1996, LAUNCH, Janiss Garza
This sounds like a different band than the one that recorded Trailer. Romantic pop ballads like "Lost In You" and charming ditties like "Girl From Mars" reveal Ash's more...
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1977
7/13/2005, AMG
Two-thirds of Ash were born in 1977, which means that their latter-day punk-pop isn't very catholic. Instead of sticking to the rigid rules of American punk-pop -- which...
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Nu-Clear Sounds
7/13/2005, AMG
While Nu-Clear Sounds lacks the immediate appeal of Ash's previous outing, 1977, over the course of repeated listens it emerges as the group's most bracing effort to date;...
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Meltdown
3/31/2005, AMG
By Meltdown, Ash were establishing a pattern: each odd-numbered album has been a difficult, rockier affair, while each even-numbered album showed off their sublimely poppy...
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Meltdown
7/13/2005, AMG
By Meltdown, Ash were establishing a pattern: each odd-numbered album has been a difficult, rockier affair, while each even-numbered album showed off their sublimely poppy...
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