Ash celebrate the resurgence of meat-and-potatoes
indie-rock by harvesting more of the above
from their Free All Angels album. This is
a sunny, festival-friendly number with a
happy-sad arms-in-the-air chorus and it's
hard to dislike. On CD1 you get two exclusive
new tracks: the fuzzy, punky Skullfull Of
Sulphur, and a Neil Youngish lament, So The
Story Goes, plus the slick CD-ROM video.
CD2 is a Peel session covers package, as
the trio take on Teenage Kicks (a song which
condenses into three minutes what Ash have
been trying to say their whole career) and
Lazer-Gun Nun's Melon Farmer, with charmingly
unsteady backing vocals from Charlotte Hatherley.
Proving what exactly? That they can do carbon
copy punk if they feel like it? Anyway, there's
also a DVD, but only hardcore fans should
bother. It features the video (again), a
further 15 minutes of their behind-the-scenes
doc, and a standard discography/lyrics section.
You can get any two CDs or DVDs for £5 or
all three for £7.50, so Ash aren't entirely
taking the piss. |