Album Info

Ad Astra

By Ash

Indie Rock - 2025

Everything Ash does is big: big hooks, big guitars, and choruses so huge that they’re practically their own planetary systems.... more

Tracklist

1

Zarathustra

1:33 min
2

Which One Do You Want?

3:30 min
3

Fun People

3:42 min
4

Give Me Back My World

2:42 min
5

Hallion

3:33 min
6

Deadly Love

6:05 min
7

My Favourite Ghost

3:12 min
8

Jump in the Line

3:27 min
9

Keep Dreaming

3:29 min
10

Dehumanised

4:19 min
11

Ghosting

2:33 min
12

Ad Astra

5:14 min

About Ad Astra

Everything Ash does is big: big hooks, big guitars, and choruses so huge that they’re practically their own planetary systems. So it only makes sense that the Northern Irish power-pop veterans’ ninth album Ad Astra opens with their own supercharged take on Richard Strauss’ iconic tone poem “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” complete with ringing guitars and world-swallowing grandiosity that’s also faintly reminiscent of prog-rock titan Rush’s “Tom Sawyer.” But fear not: Ash hasn’t gone full-prog on their devoted fanbase, as Ad Astra is the latest collection of winsome and toothy tunes following 2023’s neon-streaked Race the Night. Blur guitarist Graham Coxon joins the trio for the punchy “Fun People” and the title track’s six-string theatrics, while the spacey rock of “Deadly Love” rubs elbows with a sprightly and surprising cover of the calypso standard “Jump in the Line”—the latter serving as a reminder of Ash’s try-anything-once versatility, which remains endearing as ever.