ASH

After five Top 10 albums, 16 Top 40 singles and countless storming gigs worldwide, the premier power-popsters Ash, return with their fifth album "Twilight Of The Innocents".

With legendary Rolling Stones/Elton John arranger Paul Buckmaster contributing string parts, "Twilight Of The Innocents" begins with a barrelling trio of punk-pop stormers; the loved-up 'I Started A Fire', the mightily pissed-off first single 'You Can't Have It All', the rifftastic 'Blacklisted' and the spine-tingling 'Polaris'.

The album also showcases a new musical ambition in the stylistic twists and turns of the wonderfully buoyant 'Ritual ', in the fizz and pop of the swoonsome 'End Of The World' and particularly, in the epic grandeur of the title track, which closes the album.

With the band slimmed down to its original three-piece status, "Twilight Of The Innocents" is ambitious, energised and packed to the rafters with tunes. Fifteen years after they formed at school in Northern Ireland, Ash have never sounded better.

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