Artist: Ash Genre(s):
Rock
Alternative
Other
Rock: Pop-Rock
ROck: Alternative
Indie
Discography:
Twilight Of The Innocents Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Intergalactic Sonic 7s Year: 2007
Tracks: 19
Starcrossed Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Meltdown Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Free All Angels Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Nu-Clear Sounds Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
1977 Year: 1996
Tracks: 12
Other and Live Year:
Tracks: 4
Irish punk-pop triad Ash first base formed in 1989 when childhood match Tim Wheeler and Mark Hamilton got guitars for Christmas and established the metallic element work Vietnam. Nothing more than something for kicks, Vietnam switched to Ash in 1992 as Wheeler (guitar/vocals), Hamilton (bass), and Rick "Rock" McMurray (drums) aimed to be something more serious. They shared a love for the bare-assed British punk rock of the Buzzcocks and crafted their melodious talents to take the Brit-pop scenery by storm at the begin of the decennium. NME was lightheaded over these "adolescent punkers from Belfast," and by 1994 Ash had signed to Infectious Records to outlet the
Trailer EP subsequently that fall.
Their glossy youth was undoubtedly tempting, yet their Irish roots exuded a scrap of an American flair similar to the likes of Pavement and the Lemonheads. They weren't even out of senior high schooling ahead deuce-ace singles pip the Top Five in the U.K. indie charts. A class by and by marked Ash's full-length debut with
1977 and a deal with Reprise Records in the U.S. Named in purity of the twelvemonth
Star Wars was released,
1977 displayed Wheeler and Hamilton's full-fledged love for all things extraterrestrial being and scientific discipline fiction-related. Sharp guitar meat hooks and demand production work by Owen Morris (Haven, New Order, Paul Weller) gained the bandmembers the fame they'd been wishing for since childhood. They were headlining major festivals -- T in the Park, Glastonbury, Roskilde, and Reading -- and playing unnumerable club dates across the ball. In fall 1997, female guitarist Charlotte Hatherley was added to the all-male lineup, a definite change for the band's sound and image and a stride that lED Ash's winnow infrastructure to elaborate into more than of what the circle had been looking at for since the beginning.
With a new bandmate and the end of their adolescent age, Ash welcomed anything that came their way. The late '90s marked a festering for Ash as a unit as well as individually. Their good featured heavier guitars while Wheeler's lyric capacity experienced a much grittier switch. Their sophomore try,
Nuclear Sounds (1998), had Garbage's Butch Vig (Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana) at the mix board, and it wasn't necessarily their finest moment. NME off on the band, criticizing Ash's new sound as "terrific, ghoulrawk thrashnik deathcore noiseterrior sultans of infernal rhyme" in August 1998. Harsh actor's line and reviews didn't distract Ash, however.
Free All Angels followed in April 2001, although it didn't even regard a U.S. handout until the following summer.
Nuclear meltdown, the band's first stateside release for Record Collection, arrived in spring 2005. A year later, and after nine-spot age with Ash, Charlotte Hatherley proclaimed her release from the band. In 2007 the radical released
Twilight of the Innocents, the record album they claimed would be their final. Interestingly, however, they also assured their fans that they were not breakage up; rather, they would simply press release singles in reaction to consumer trends.
