Free All Angels

Free All Angels is the third studio album by Ash, which was initially released on 16 April 2001, through Infectious Records. The name of the album is taken from a T-shirt worn by a Hells Angel.

Speaking to Kerrang! in 2008, Tim Wheeler remembered:

I wasn't going to make any old commercial shit, I wanted to write brilliant songs that would actually speak to people. So I went back to Northern Ireland, to my parents’ house away from everything, back to where we were before we had any success. Being in that mindset felt like starting again. We’d met Joe Strummer in Japan and he said, 'I'm going to be in Belfast in a few months, come and do I Fought the Law with me onstage'. And I didn't do it because I was staying home and writing. It's one of my big regrets, but during that time I wrote "Shining Light". We went off to record it in Van Morrison's studio in Bath and then some more in Spain. It was amazing. I was one of the best tunes of our lives. It's ensured our survival ever since. We were still so young we didn’t want to give in. We were determined that wouldn't be the end.^[3]

On 7 August 2001 Free All Angels was released in the United States.

The album entered the charts at #1 in the UK, and has won numerous awards, including awards for the singles "Shining Light" and "Burn Baby Burn". It is also certified Platinum by the BPI. The UK version has a (CD-ROM Enhanced CD), the ashvideomixer that allows fans to make and share online their own music video.

The American edition was released on the Kinetic Records label. It includes the bonus track "So the Story Goes" and also a remixed "Burn Baby Burn", which subsequently appeared on Intergalactic Sonic 7"s.

A German Special Tour Edition of the album featured with different artwork and a second CD of b-sides, acoustic tracks and the French version of "Candy".

The Japanese release includes the tracks "Warmer Than Fire" and "Gabriel".

The song "Shark" appears on the soundtrack to the game Gran Turismo 3.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Drowned in Sound	(6/10)^[4]
NME	(8/10)^[5]
Pitchfork Media	(7.3/10)^[6]
Rolling Stone	^[7]
Stylus Magazine	C+^[2]

Initial critical response to Free All Angels was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 76, based on 11 reviews.^[8]

The album has sold 3 million records worldwide.

Q listed Free All Angels as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Walking Barefoot"	Tim Wheeler	Wheeler	4:13
2.	"Shining Light"	Wheeler	Wheeler	5:09
3.	"Burn Baby Burn"	Wheeler	Wheeler	3:29
4.	"Candy"	Wheeler	Wheeler	4:52
5.	"Cherry Bomb"	Wheeler	Wheeler	3:17
6.	"Submission"	Rick McMurray, Wheeler	McMurray	3:33
7.	"Someday"	Wheeler	Wheeler	4:29
8.	"Pacific Palisades"	Wheeler	Wheeler	1:57
9.	"Shark"	Wheeler	Charlotte Hatherley, Mark Hamilton, Wheeler	3:18
10.	"Sometimes"	Wheeler	Wheeler	4:07
11.	"Nicole"	Hamilton, Wheeler	Hamilton, Wheeler	3:25
12.	"There's a Star"	Wheeler	Wheeler	4:20
13.	"World Domination"	Wheeler	Wheeler	2:17

American release bonus track
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
14.	"So the Story Goes"	Wheeler	Wheeler	2:55

American release bonus DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"World Domination Documentary"
2.	"13th Floor"
3.	"Coasting"
4.	"So the Story Goes"
5.	"Burn Baby Burn (Video)"
6.	"Sometimes (Video)"
7.	"Candy (Video)"
8.	"There's a Star (video)"
9.	"Burn Baby Burn (Live From Tokyo Blitz Film)"
10.	"Kung Fu (Live From Tokyo Blitz Film)"

Japanese release bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
14.	"Warmer Than Fire"	Steve Ludwin	Ludwin	3:07
15.	"Gabriel"	Hamilton	Hamilton	5:28

German and Australian release bonus disc
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Skulfull of Sulphur"	3:10
2.	"So the Story Goes"	2:57
3.	"The Sweetness of Death by the Obsidian Knife"	3:29
4.	"Melon Farmer (live)"	2:07
5.	"Nocturne"	3:31
6.	"Stay in Love Forever"	3:41
7.	"Thinking About You"	3:50
8.	"Candy (French version radio edit)"	3:45
9.	"Shining Light (acoustic version)"	4:06
10.	"Burn Baby Burn (acoustic version)"	3:29

Enhanced content

All CD versions of Free All Angels apart from the Japanese release include Version 1.0 of the Ash video mixer software. The German and Australian bonus disc include enhanced videos of Candy and Sometimes.

Personnel

Ash

Tim Wheeler – guitar, vocals, string arrangements
Mark Hamilton – bass
Charlotte Hatherley – guitar, vocals
Rick McMurray – drums

Additional musicians

Oli Kraus - string arrangements
Steve Ludwin - additional backing vocals on "Pacific Palisades"

Technical

Ash - production
Owen Morris - production, engineering
Alan Moulder - mixing
Raj Das - studio assistant
James Brown Geronimo - studio assistant
Naughty Laughty - studio assistant
Mike Marsh - mastering

References

1 2 http://www.allmusic.com/album/r526541/review
1 2 3 "Ash - Free All Angels - Review - Stylus Magazine".
↑ Johnston, Emma. Kerrang! Issue #1235, November 2008. Treasure Chest. The Intimate Portrait Of a Life in Rock. Tim Wheeler. P.54
↑ "Drowned in Sound - Reviews - Albums - Ash - Free All Angels". Archived from the original on 13 May 2008.
↑ NME.COM. "NME Reviews - Ash : Free All Angels - NME.COM". NME.COM.
↑ "Ash: Free All Angels: Pitchfork Record Review". Archived from the original on 13 June 2008.
↑ "Ash". Archived from the original on 16 August 2009.
↑ "Ash:Free All Angels (2002): Reviews". Metacritic. CNET Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
↑ "The Best 50 Albums of 2001". Q. December 2001. pp. 60–65.

Preceded by Just Enough Education to Perform by Stereophonics	UK number one album 5 May 2001 – 11 May 2001	Succeeded by Survivor by Destiny's Child

Ash

Mark Hamilton Rick McMurray Tim Wheeler Charlotte Hatherley

Albums	Trailer 1977 Nu-Clear Sounds Free All Angels Meltdown Twilight of the Innocents Kablammo!

Single format series	A–Z Series

Live albums	Live at the Wireless Tokyo Blitz

Compilations	Intergalactic Sonic 7″s A–Z Vol. 1 A–Z Vol. 2 The Best of Ash

Singles	"Jack Names the Planets" "Petrol" "Uncle Pat" "Kung Fu" "Girl from Mars" "Angel Interceptor" "Goldfinger" "Oh Yeah" "A Life Less Ordinary" "Jesus Says" "Wildsurf" "Numbskull" "Shining Light" "Burn Baby Burn" "Sometimes" "Candy" "There's a Star" "Walking Barefoot" "Envy" "Clones" "Orpheus" "Starcrossed" "Renegade Cavalcade" "You Can't Have It All" "Polaris" "End of the World" "Return of White Rabbit" "True Love 1980" "Joy Kicks Darkness" "Arcadia" "Tracers" "The Dead Disciples" "Pripyat" "Ichiban" "Space Shot" "Neon" "Command" "Song of Your Desire" "Dionysian Urge" "War with Me" "Dare to Dream" "Mind Control" "Insects" "Binary" "Physical World" "Spheres" "Instinct" "Summer Snow" "Carnal Love" "Embers" "Change Your Name" "Sky Burial" "There Is Hope Again" "Cocoon" "Free" "Machinery"

Related articles	Discography Slashed

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