Ash – Race the Night

2023-09-24 08:15:12

from Oliver
am 24. September 2023
in Reviews

From the originally planned synthpop album Ash-Handwriting is ultimately just the potential darkwave artwork of Race the Night left over while since Islands five years have secretly passed.

Time in which the band around Tim Wheeler not only reconsidered their ambitions, but also brought a certain freshness and lightness back into the familiar melange of alternative rock and power pop, practically everything Race the Night goes into your ear immediately and easily. Just the opening theme song or Peanut Brain sound like endearing, effective Weezer-Tribute, meanwhile the record is regarding the cheesy ballad duet Oslo (with the Dutch singer Demira) usually presents a finely sequenced variation in the step on the accelerator pedal, which is operated in different dynamics: someone is having fun with it and is picking up with a revitalized knack for catchy melodies!
Above all, the niedly solitary one Like a Godwhich is at the back with a Corgan’esque Reprise granted an even more excessive closing credits, as well as the reverie, first synthetically undercut, then built up to an anthemic test of strength Crashed Out Wasted stand out from an entertaining, failure-free (albeit the phase around the striking Braindead as well as the heavier meandering one Double Dare would have been dispensable) as a whole, which in its nice pleasantness, but without any serious depth, also makes no secret of its manageable half-life.



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