#1226 Ash - 1977

Classic britpop: young, fun, pop-punk 3-chord bounce with the occasional swooping crooner, the occasional metal grinder. The themes are light grasping the heavy, the guitars are full of crunch, the vocal hooks are hooky as heck. I'm too old for this to be anything more than good headbobbing, daytripping music, but if this'd caught me Mellon Collie-style and planted some teenage season seeds? This might well be one of my favorite albums and I'd be swaying hopeless to Oh Yeah solos by now 3.5/5