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Artist: Ash
Label: Wea
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

16 reviews
Sales Rank: 6847

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 825646985654
EAN: 0825646985654
ASIN: B000R9QEK4

Release Date: July 2, 2007
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Tracks:

•	I Started A Fire
•	You Can't Have It All
•	Blacklisted
•	Polaris
•	Palace Of Excess
•	End Of The World
•	Ritual
•	Shadows
•	Princess Six
•	Dark And Stormy
•	Shattered Glass
•	Twilight Of The Innocents

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Their best album yet? July 3, 2007
Roly (England)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

In my opinion this is the best album they have released since "1977" and quite possibly even better. Every single track is an absolute blinder. Talk about a huge return to form. Classic Ash. br / br /Go and buy one of the best albums of the year so far. Enjoy. br /

5 out of 5 stars

2 stars? better than Meltdown and fantastc at that! July 2, 2007
HotAngel (UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This Album was instant but not in the soon to be dull way that you get with some albums. Awesome tracks, great guitar licks and the Dance like throb of "You can't have it all" is superb! Great songs include YCHIA (of course) Polaris, twilight of the innocents, princess Six and end of the world. Not to be missed, Ash ALWAYS produce top tunes and its just a shame they have decided to go with the fact reviwers call them "A great singles bands" and just produce digital singles. I love albums I think its important that good bands make them and ASH always deliver on album tracks as well as singles so why not just keep making them? Anyway whatever they decide to do we've had five brilliant albuns from them so its all good!

5 out of 5 stars

So this is going to be the last album Ash release before they just concentrate on download singles, and vinyl compilations? July 12, 2007
D. Price (Essex, England)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

This is a shame, as they have produced one of their best albums. br / br /I Started A Fire is a great, loud opening to the album. Originally available as a free preview via their myspace page, and given away as a DVD with a homemade video at the High Education tour, this showed that Ash were back in business. With a great intro that leads you into a crash of drums and guitars, there were calls by the fans for this to be the first single from the new album and you can hear why. Instead we got... br / br /You Can't Have It All. Starts off with a simple guitar melody, which builds in a thumping piece of classic Ash pop-rock. With some very personal lyrics by Tim, and a typically catchy Ash chorus, some might argue this is Ash by numbers, but when the boys are on this kind of form, you can't really argue. And the guitar solo that kicks in just before the two minute mark, and is then repeated, will have many an Ash fan doing their best air guitar in front of the bedroom mirror. br / br /Blacklisted does have a kind of American-Pop/Rock/Punk feel to it, but that's not a bad thing, as it's a great song. The guitar playing about 2.20 minutes in lifts the track even higher. Big, loud, noisy and brilliant. br / br /Polaris, the second single from TOTI, and is another Ash ballad that shows the band can do more then just pop/punk/rock. A beautiful intro, which was originally written on Bono's piano. The lyrics in the chorus have a heartfelt innocence to them that many songs lack these days. Unfortunately it seems people like nonsense lyrics, songs without passion and 5 minute bubble gum pop, as this only charted at no.34. br / br /Palace Of Excess didn't leave much of an impression on the first listen, but is a bit of a grower, which is unfortunately let down by a sub-standard chorus. You'll either love it, or it will become one of those tracks you skip, to get to the better songs. br / br /End Of The World would have made for a better second single I think, and a better choice of single promotion for the album. More typical Ash, with another catchy chorus that they seem to do so well. The more I listen to this, the more it grows on me and I love it, brilliant track. This is one of those songs that will make your friends listen too. Loudly. br / br /Ritual, been waiting to hear the opening of this ever since I heard the first bootleg, and I wasn't disappointed. A great stand alone guitar intro, that grows into a live favorite. One of the best songs lyrically on the album from Tim, which a lot of us can relate to. Maybe can't see it as a single, but a great album track. Ends with another guitar solo that brings the song to an end nicely. br / br /Shadows, doesn't really do much for me on a first listen, and for a while was my second least favorite track on the album, but the chorus has grown on me and has helps to save the song in my opinion. Nothing bad, nothing brilliant. Just a good, solid, album track. br / br /Princess Six was one of the first songs to be previewed on the pre-album tour, and like many an Ash song, has a great guitar chorus. Another great album track and brilliant live. br / br /Dark And Stormy is one of the quieter tracks on the album, and is a good change of pace after Princess Six. Very easy to both listen to, and just as easy to get lost in the song. But it doesn't leave a lasting impression like some of the other songs. br / br /Wasn't too sure about Shattered Glass at first, but as the track goes on, it really kicks in. Great chorus, and has really grown on me. To me does the same job on this album that Vampire Love does on Meltdown. Again, not a single choice, but great album track, and helps to set you up for..... br / br /Twilight Of The Innocents, a track that, like everybody else, I've loved since hearing the first bootleg and hearing it live for the first time. Tim has got the vocals nailed spot on. They sound beautiful and sad, with a delicate musical beginning, both getting stronger as the track goes on. When the track really kicks in around the 3.40 mark, it still sends shivers down my spine, no matter how many times I've heard the song. Amazing and brilliant. br / br /So, my overall views of Twilight Of The Innocents? br / br /I think it's a fantastic, I truly do. Some classic Ash along with hints of what else the band could do in the future. br / br /Palace Of Excess, Shadows and Dark And Stormy haven't really grabbed me. But then, I can't remember the last time I heard an album and loved every track. Stand out tracks for me? You Can't Have It All, End Of The World, Ritual and Twilight Of The Innocents. br / br /And to end the album with the title track is perfect, a beautiful finish to a great album. br / br /For me its better then Meltdown, Nu-Clear Sounds and, in my opinion, maybe slightly better overall then Free All Angels, which I feel maybe had the stronger singles overall. But is still slightly behind 1977, their debut album, in terms of greatness. br / br /Well worth the wait, and a rare occasion where my expectations for an album are actually met and not let down. br / br /They won't get it, as I feel their no longer seen as fashionable with either the music press who would rather promote identikit new bands, or the music buying public, who seem to have lost touch with what makes music such a powerful and moving experience, but Ash deserve chart, and world, domination with this. br / br / br /

5 out of 5 stars

Easily Ash's best August 3, 2007
JD (Salisbury, Wiltshire United Kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

I'm a big Ash fan and have all the albums, but have to say that, post-1977, their LPs have been patchy at best. br / br /The big problem was the number of throw-away tracks, made up for by simply inspired classics such as Jesus Says, Envy, Shining Light, Orpheus, the list goes on. br / br /So I was surprised and frankly blown away by this album, which is easily their best and takes Ash to the next level. br / br /Forget a return to form, this is going places they've not been before. br / br /The standout feature is it's consistency - there is only one track you could describe as 'Ash by numbers' which is Shattered Glass, but the rest is fantastic. br / br /On reading reviews so far I can't believe that Shadows isn't hailed as one of the best things they've done, showing a totally new maturity and setting us up perfectly for a more conventional Ash classic Princess Six. br / br /End of the World, Dark and Stormy and Twilight of the Innocents are others that show Ash entering new ground and, though some Ash fans won't approve, it sees them offer some radio-friendly songs to sit alongside the usual blistering rock tracks. br / br /Free All Angels was perhaps the only other Ash record to be so accessible, but suffered from over-production in places. Amazingly, though they produced this new album themselves, it is extremely well crafted while still sounding raw when it wants to. br / br /The standard of song writing is also far more mature and impressive than on previous records and that's why you can't really compare it to 1977, an album that was brilliant mainly because it was created by a bunch of school kids. br / br /The first three tracks get the album off to a cracking start and it continues from there. br / br /It's as if they've found a missing gear. Where in the past they've done loud (Burn Baby Burn) or lame and sentimental (Candy), we have some really good pacing on this album and that makes it all the better. br / br /So do the softer, more commercial tracks mean they've sold out? Not for me. But they might actually get the recognition they deserve at last - let's face it, with so many classics behind them, they should be regularly headlining at festivals by now. br /

5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant Album - One of their best July 2, 2007
Kevin Wilkinson (Leeds)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I love this album. It's in a totally different league to many of the bands around today and ash have now proven their longevity. My favourite tracks are End of the World and princess six, however the most amazing track I've heard this year has to be twilight of the innocents. It's awesome. Buy this album now you will not be disappointed.

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