Ash announce new album ‘Ad Astra’
Ash have today announced details of their ninth full length LP Ad Astra. Following hot on the heels of 2023’s Race the night – the band’s highest charting album for 20 years – the album will be released on October 3, 2025 via Fierce Panda. The album features a guest appearance by Graham Coxon of Blur on two tracks.
Ad Astra is described as a cohesive work, focusing on themes of distant galaxies and endless horizons. It will feature classic Ash power-pop-rockers like “Hallion” and “Dehumanised”, alongside more nuanced tracks such as the acoustic elegance of “My Favourite Ghost”. Adding to the excitement, Rick McMurray notes that the album title, points to the lyric “…as I look to the stars” from 1995’s hit single “Girl From Mars” but with the added wisdom of three decades of life experience.
New single “Give Me Back My World” received its first play by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6 music earlier today. The full tracklisting for Ad Astra is as follows:
- Zarathustra
- Which One Do You Want?
- Fun People (featuring Graham Coxon)
- Give Me Back My World
- Hallion
- Deadly Love
- My Favourite Ghost
- Jump in the Line
- Keep Dreaming
- Dehumanised
- Ghosting
- Ad Astra (featuring Graham Coxon)
You can pre-order the album now from the Ash Store or the Fierce Panda Store. Pre-order bundles include CDs, vinyl, cassettes, and other merchandise such as T-shirts, bags, bottles, badges and baseball caps. The album will be available in the following formats:
- CD
- Neon Nebula 12” vinyl (Rough Trade exclusive)
- Transparent Martian Red 12” vinyl (Indies exclusive)
- Zoetrope 12” vinyl (Ash official exclusive)
- Galactic Swirl 12” vinyl (Ash official exclusive)
- Gatefold Rocket Silver 12” vinyl
- Cassette Tim (Purple)"
- Cassette Mark (Silver)
- Cassette Rick (Red)
- Digital