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Ash Latest
NME 12 January 2000
Direction of new album
Ash have revealed details of their forthcoming as-yet untitled album, due out later this year. The band has announced that guitarist Charlotte Hatherley has written her own material for the first time for this, their fourth studio LP.
Drummer Rick McMurray told NME
that the new album was almost totally written and prepared and that they were going into the
studio next month to record it.
Speaking from his base in Belfast, McMurray said that Hatherley had made Ash "more strong and confident"
since she joined - and not just through her songwriting abilities.
He said : "Charlotte has written some stuff on her own. She has a distinctive sound - a really unique sound.
Also, everything seems to gel on a live stage, as her guitar playing frees Tim up
to concentrate on singing and performing".
As for the album, he continued : "We've already got 14 songs ready and written, with a few more to be added in the
near future. It's all fairly poppy and harmonic but we'll be punking it up a bit, I'm sure.
"It could still take any direction, so I suppose even the band can't say exactly what it'll end up sounding like."
McMurray said that the band were disappointed that their last album, 1998's Nu-Clear Sounds, didn't do as well as 1996's 1977, but said he thought fans had "got over" expectations of a similar-sounding record to that of their second LP.
He said : "It was a shock for people when they didn't get 1977 Part Two
. Rather than go for hit records, we wanted to see where else we could take it. Now the charts are all about boy
bands, girl bands, hermaphrodite bands, whatever.
"It means that we're almost not mainstream any more, rather strangely."
Due to recording commitments, Ash will play few live dates in the first half of 2000. The only confirmed show at present being their headline set as part of the
NME Premier Shows at London's WC2 Astoria on January 31, presented by Radio 1's Steve Lamacq and supported by Angelica.
McMurray concluded : "We'll be rehearsing soon for that and we'll be doing summer festivals as well as European dates later in the year. That's about all for now."
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