The fourth release off that album is Candy. Based around the odd combination of Burt Bacarach (The string sample) and Dr Dre (The plinky plonky piano), it proves a winning formula and produces Ash's poppiest, and one of their best, songs to date.
It also seems that Tim Wheeler's voice has finally come into its own. Though he's no Thom Yorke, the sometimes flat tones found on earlier work are now no-where to be found, having been replaced with a more sweet, crisp voice.
Ash have produced another slice of pop perfection. It's been good having them around this year. Bar the whole Starsailor thing.....
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Fighters Elvis... But, evidently after watching the effect
that one Saccharine pop song had on Sugar Ray's career,
they've had a go to see whether it does the same for them.
Strange no-one else hasn't mentioned Sugar Ray.
I'm fed up with this country promoting poor copies of US
bands and validating them on the basis that they're from
these Isles (Eire in this case) or that they're young.
Strangely enough none of these bands make it in the US....
(I'm perhaps biased - I heard them jamming at Fortress
rehearsal rooms, a couple of years ago, after two albums
and PLENTY of press, and it was like listening to a dodgy
school band (but not the school band with the good musicians
in))
I beg that my ears be spared of such mediocrity
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