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Vicky Greer

"Teenage optimism, joyful romance and delightfully nerdy Star Wars references": Every Ash album ranked from worst to best

Ash studio portrait.

When high school students get together to form a band, it’s usually awful. But sometimes it’s half-decent, and sometimes, well, one time, it’s Ash. 

Coming of age in the middle of mid-'90s Britpop and grunge, a group of schoolboys from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, took the very best from both sides of the Atlantic and mixed it with a healthy dose of teenage romanticism to glorious effect.

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