Track Listing
1. Walking Barefoot
2. Shining Light
3. Burn Baby Burn
4. Candy
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Submission
7. Someday
8. Pacific Palisades
9. Shark
10. Sometimes
11. Nicole
12. There's A Star
13. World Domination
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.The first 75,000 copies of FREE ALL ANGELS include a bonus DVD.Ash: Tim Wheeler (vocals, guitar); Charlotte Heatherley (guitar); Mark Hamilton (bass); Rick McMurray (drums).Principally recorded in London, England in 2000.U.K. release.Still looking into the storefront of American pop culture from the outside despite the success of fellow Brit-poppers like Starsailor and Travis, Ash continues plugging away on FREE ALL ANGELS, their fourth effort. Casting their fate to the wind, Tim Wheeler and company abandon the electronic nuances that rang throughout their last album NU-CLEAR SOUNDS and instead crank the amps to 11. Despite the decision to thrash their way through ANGELS in a fit of punk-pop-fueled brio, Ash's indelible melodies and sticky hooks remain very much in evidence. Mining the eternal themes of summer fun, this Irish quartet makes like The Undertones on the infectious one-tow punch of "Walking Barefoot" and "Shining Light." Other nuggets of ear-candy include the Jesus And Mary Chain-flavored workout "Cherry Bomb," chugging "Pacific Palisades" and breezy "Sometimes."Most ambitious is the lush "Candy," a keyboard drenched love song that shamelessly samples the Walker Brothers' cover of Burt Bacharach's "Make It Easy on Yourself." Anglo-philes also benefit from the inclusion of the bonus cut "So The Story Goes," a lolling harmony-fest, enhanced CD ROM and a free DVD available on the limited edition package.
Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...Solid chain-saw fun, some of the best '77 you'll hear in 2002.Entertainment Weekly (8/2/02, p.74) - ...Ash have returned to the clean, uncomplicated sound of their mid-90s debut...borrowing as much from hair metal as from the Ramones... - Rating: B+Q (1/03, p.54) - Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums EverAlternative Press (8/02, p.69) - 8 out of 10 - ...Punchy guitar pop in extremis, sliding so breathlessly from anthemic chorus to soaring hook that it's hard to believe any band could actually want to have this much fun and sound this important....Ash have finally turned in the album we've been waiting for since 1977...CMJ (7/1/02, p.10) - ...It's emo for sure, seasoned with years of beer-guzzlin', karate-lovin' pop-star glory. Dashboard Confessional, meet your match.
Rolling Stone (07/11/2002)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Solid chain-saw fun, some of the best '77 you'll hear in 2002.Entertainment Weekly (8/2/02, p.74) - ...Ash have returned to the clean, uncomplicated sound of their mid-90s debut...borrowing as much from hair metal as from the Ramones... - Rating: B+Q (1/03, p.54) - Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums EverAlternative Press (8/02, p.69) - 8 out of 10 - ...Punchy guitar pop in extremis, sliding so breathlessly from anthemic chorus to soaring hook that it's hard to believe any band could actually want to have this much fun and sound this important....Ash have finally turned in the album we've been waiting for since 1977...CMJ (7/1/02, p.10) - ...It's emo for sure, seasoned with years of beer-guzzlin', karate-lovin' pop-star glory. Dashboard Confessional, meet your match.
Rolling Stone (07/11/2002)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Solid chain-saw fun, some of the best '77 you'll hear in 2002.Entertainment Weekly (8/2/02, p.74) - ...Ash have returned to the clean, uncomplicated sound of their mid-90s debut...borrowing as much from hair metal as from the Ramones... - Rating: B+Q (1/03, p.54) - Included in Q Magazine's 100 Greatest Albums EverAlternative Press (8/02, p.69) - 8 out of 10 - ...Punchy guitar pop in extremis, sliding so breathlessly from anthemic chorus to soaring hook that it's hard to believe any band could actually want to have this much fun and sound this important....Ash have finally turned in the album we've been waiting for since 1977...CMJ (7/1/02, p.10) - ...It's emo for sure, seasoned with years of beer-guzzlin', karate-lovin' pop-star glory. Dashboard Confessional, meet your match.
Rolling Stone (07/11/2002)
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