Photograph Credit score: Steve Gullick

Ash preserve us ready with a 3rd carrot dangler from their extremely anticipated new album Race The Night time out quickly. It’s simply their greatest album for years and takes parts from totally different elements of every of their catalogue to provide a cracker. Ordinary Locations proves this after only one pay attention. Learn on…

Ash are in the present day revealing one other glimpse into what their forthcoming album Race The Night time holds. New single Ordinary Locations obtained its airplay debut from Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 Music.

Ordinary Locations arrives on the heels of latest new album cuts ‘Race The Night time’ and ‘Like A God’, stoking anticipation for a report that guarantees to be super-charged, widescreen and with melodies to spare. Already profitable constant help throughout BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 and Absolute Radio, these new songs convey with them what lead singer and guitarist Tim Wheeler describes as “the sound of the band reveling within the sheer pleasure of being a band after being separated by time and distance by the madness of the early 2020s.”

Ordinary Locations was written as testimony to lives perpetually modified through the time earlier than they have been capable of reunite and work on new music. Three and a half minutes of brisk energy pop set a buoyant backdrop to its eager for all that was misplaced.

Wheeler feedback: “Initially written as a tribute to lengthy forgotten bars and faces as I used to be leaving New York, ‘Ordinary Locations’ took on additional significance as the very first thing we labored on collectively post-lockdown. Under the floor of the enjoyment of writing and enjoying collectively once more, there’s a unconscious grief to all that was misplaced in these years. Family and friends, pubs and venues. That is our eulogy to all of them. No coincidence the video was shot within the Marquis of Lorne, only a stroll from Brixton Academy.”

New album Race The Night time can be launched on fifteenth September 2023 through one in all their earliest label houses Fierce Panda. UK pre-orders are stay now right here. Race The Night time is out there throughout gatefold vinyl, CD, cassette and ltd version vinyl codecs. A limited-edition Amazon unique CD with an prolonged model of latest single ‘Like A God’, packaged with different art work, may be pre-ordered right here.

Ash can be enjoying a week-long run of instore / outstore stay reveals as Race The Night time is launched. The reveals will mix Q&As, acoustic units and signings, in addition to a particular present at Pryzm Kingston, at which the band will play tracks from the brand new album absolutely electrical for the primary time. Full particulars are beneath and tickets can be found right here.

Ash – Race The Night time album instore / outstore tour 2023

Fri fifteenth Sept | HMV @ Oh Yeah Music Centre Belfast (8pm)
Sat sixteenth Sept | Assai Glasgow (2pm)
Sat sixteenth Sept | Assai Edinburgh (7pm)
Solar seventeenth Sept | Jumbo Information Leeds (2pm)
Solar seventeenth | Jacaranda Information @ Cavern Membership Liverpool (9pm) – NEW SHOW ADDED
Mon 18th Sept | Banquet Information Kingston @ Pryzm (7pm)
Tue nineteenth Sept | Tough Commerce Bristol (6.30pm)
Wed twentieth Sept | Tough Commerce East London (7pm) – SOLD OUT
Thu twenty first Sept | Tower Information Dublin (7pm)

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