release date: Feb. 11, 1991
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,36]
producer: Daniel Ash; (John Fryer, John A. Rivers)
label: Beggars Banquet - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Coming Down Fast" - 3. "Walk This Way" - 6. "This Love" - 7. "Blue Angel" - 9. "Candy Darling" - 10. "Sweet Little Liar" - 11. "Not So Fast"
Solo studio debut album by former guitarist of Bauhaus, Daniel Ash released two years after the acclaimed eponymous 4th studio album by Love and Rockets. John Fryer has co-produced 7 tracks with Ash, and John A. Rivers is co-producer on two tracks. Daniel Ash plays a vast number of instruments on the album (mostly frequently guitar and bass), and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets is credited for drum programming, as well as keyboards on several tracks, and Natacha Atlas sings on almost all tracks - she also plays keyboards and bass on "Walk This Way". The style is hard to define, which is quite understandable when thinking of Ash's central role in Love and Rockets, and their various albums. With Love and Rockets, Daniel Ash has explored the grounds of alt. rock, and this is another such "exploration". It has elements from glam rock, psychedelic rock, but also from progressive rock, folk rock, surf rock, and even from what resembles latin rock and / or even bossanova. The album contains 3 covers: "Blue Moon" (by Rodgers & Hart), "Day Tripper" (by Lennon & McCartney), and "Me and My Shadow" (by Al Johnson, Billy Rose, Dave Dreyer). The inclusion of these covers nicely indicate some of the sources to the music of Daniel Ash. Although, "This Love" comes close, it's not catchy music as "So Alive" from the most recent album by Love and Rockets, but it's a more than just decent collections of songs, and I like it.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
