Their ninth studio album, ‘Ad Astra’, blasts off in turbocharged style, a blazing follow-up to 2023’s ‘Race The Night’, and the band are set to soar into new sonic realms, pushing their sound to new heights and expanding their musical universe. In the spirit of doing exactly what it says on the tin, or rocket if you are so inclined, ‘Ad Astra’ lives up to its name, marking the band’s most ambitious and elevated work to date. In fact, their debut album, the seminal ‘1977’ was named after the year the original Star Wars film debuted and its lead single ‘Girl From Mars’ referenced the lyric ‘and as I look to the stars’, so it seems that with ‘Ad Astra’ Ash are creating a subtle nod back to the band’s past. The sonic journey of ‘Ad Astra’ launches boldly with album opener ‘Zarathustra,’ which draws on Richard Strauss’s iconic theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey – a soundscape as epic as the Force itself! With ‘Ad Astra’, Ash are reflective yet revitalised, offering a colourful, charismatic, and cosmic offering that’s truly out of this world.