ASH
RACE THE NIGHT (EXPANDED) (FIERCE PANDA)
Expanded new CD version containing 7 additional extra tracks! The self-produced 2023 comeback "Race The Night" - the band's eighth full-length studio album, no less - is outstanding in every respect.
Recorded at the Oh Yeah studio in Belfast with renewed focus the record combines the irresistible rock riffs of 2004's blistering "Meltdown" album with the melodic mastery of its 2001 predecessor, "Free All Angels" - all wrapped up with a distinctly 2023 twist.
And, with the distant rumblings of an oft-mooted rock revival on the horizon, it might just be the essential guitar-centric, anthem-packed album the world has been waiting for.
Ever since Ash blasted out of Downpatrick as teenagers with their Number One debut album, "1977" their ability to cover multiple bases, while always pushing forward, has kept the band a vital, growing concern.
Most of their contemporaries have faded away, or at least split up before returning, but Ash's light shines as brightly as ever.
Digipak CD with 4 acoustic songs, The Subways-Cover, extended Like A God and Remix of Race The Night as extra tracks.