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- MusicOMH review
"Tim Wheeler is sickeningly talented. If he can keep this sort of songwriting up then the annals of music history beckon him to join the greats."
- BBC review
"A quick flick through the collection of any of your mates that like guitar based music from the last decade will undoubtedly reveal a copy of 'Free All Angels' - nip round now, promise you it’ll be there. ."
- Fazed review
"Pop rock to tap your foot to. No better than that. My opinion of Ash for the last ten years was thus. Harsh you may think, but I know many others who have shared my views."
- RTE review
"Another thing you should know about 'Intergalactic Sonic 7"s' - it makes a great drive album. Stick this in your car stereo and you'll be singing along, totally cured of road-rage."
- NME review
"The Manga artwork for Ash's greatest hits album says it all - at once heroically clueless and unspeakably cool, their clumsy cartoon image has masked the fact that Ash are one of the most three-dimensionally brilliant groups of the modern age."
- The Guardian review
"Tim Wheeler's band have quietly notched a machine-gun run of white-hot guitar-pop singles to rival the Buzzcocks and the Jam."
- Hotpress review
"I suspect that Ash’s best is yet to come - that said, it’ll be some achievement if they can top a collection of this magnificence even in another ten years."
- Dotmusic review
"The Dre/Scott Walker-esque beauty that is 'Candy', the Velvety we're-old-enough-to-drink chug of 'Jesus Says', the almost Christ-like 'Shining Star', - they're all here, inspiring a whole host of lesser bands to hack off their right arms just to be in the same postcode as these stunners."
- Q review
"Shining Light may have won a deserved Ivor Novello songwriting award, but any of the Free All Angels singles - Burn Baby Burn, Sometimes, Walking Barefoot, Candy, There's A Star (count 'em) - could have bagged one."
 
- Hotpress review
"With punk-as-pop having been bled dry and bleached white by boneheads like The Offspring and Green Day, Free All Angels sees Ash marrying head, heart and hips into one handsome body of songs."
- Splendid E-zine review
"It really is that sort of album, one that's big and guitar-crunchy and sunny without being too taxing -- a modern-rock radio record for folks with a few more brain cells to rub together than the Andrew WK set."
- NME review
"Frankly, there hasn't been a more consistently electrifying rock album since they wired 'Definitely Maybe' to the National Grid."
- Playlouder review
"This is the sound of Ash coming of age and it sounds far, far better than we could ever have hoped for, and if all guitar bands could hit this sort of form then we'd be looking at the glory days of the mid-'90s all over again."
- Pitchfork review
"Wah pedals and --I shit you not-- orchestral hits spice up an already hot rhythmic stew stirred up by drummer Rick McMurray and bassist Mark Hamilton."
- Dallas Music Guide review
"With their last album, "Nu Clear Sounds", Ash lost the plot a bit and forgot their roots by venturing off into 'rawk'-land, probably no-thanks to the addition of a 2nd guitarist, Charlotte Hatherly."
- Launch review
"It strikes a balance between the buzzy pop of their first album and the heavier thud of their second."
- Dotmusic review
"Every track here has the possibility of being a single, even the heavier 'Sometimes' fails to hide its pop, 'Nicole', even, a tale of murder is a completely cheery head-nod."
- Drowned In Sound review
"'Pacific Palisades' is this album's 'Oh Yeah'. It screams single! I'll put my bets in now for it being the summer anthem that little children and grandparents alike will be whistling on country walks."
- Xtramsn review
"The album also yields some inspirational oddities in the deranged 'Nicole' and the demanding stomp, 'World Domination', as Wheeler allows his cohorts to have a crack at lyrical expression."
- Phase 9 review
"Owen Morris’ production is pristine, sharpening the chugging, electric riffs of 'Shark', 'Nicole' and 'Cherry Bomb, and softening 'Candy' and 'Someday' with lush strings."
- Gay-Ireland review
"'Candy' is the gem at the heart of this machine; all stuttering drum machine under a swirling whirlpool of a lullaby sounding like something from Annie - The Musical and softening it into a refrain that goes 'don’t you know its alright to be alone, you can make it on your own'. You will melt."
- Baptizing By Fire review
"I downloaded the song off the internet, and, I cannot overestimate this, the song was great, the type of undeniably solid and well-written song that bespeaks of true writing talent instead of fluke inspiration. "Burn Baby Burn" is the type of song that can revive faith in an entire musical genre, let alone jumpstart a career. Nonetheless, I decided to buy the album when it was released." -What d'ya say bout that then Metallica?!
- Designer Magazine review
"Ash have always been a pop band and to their detriment "Nu-Clear Sounds" was a record that seemed to rebel against nothing."
- Cluas.com review
"Three songs in and they've lost the plot. "Burn Baby Burn" is the typical teenage rubbish that puts the bands weaknesses to the fore and makes bands like Blink 182 seem mature."
- Q review
"If these were less testing times for indie-rock, student residency corridors would resonate to its sounds until, ooh, at least the summer after next."
 
- NME review
"For the past year Ash have found themselves being dragged through the pop mill backwards - forced to play in the big boys' charts while, at heart, they still wanted to be shoving conkers up their noses and playing songs they haven't written yet, on instruments they can't play, to a youth club full of mates who'd pogo to a weasel farting, all in the name of rabid Punk Rock."
- NME review
"They've broken the generic ties that bind the three previously released singles, 'Kung Fu', 'Girl From Mars' and 'Angel Interceptor'. They may now stay famous long enough to grow stubble."
- Drowned In Sound review
"'Angel Interceptor' is the icing on the already heavily tiered cake. Sweet and seducing cute-punk as only Ash seem to deliver."
- Q review
"'1977' is rich with cherishable brio and bluff romanticism. Youth? Check. Power? Top 57 to Top Five act in 13 months. Enthusiasm? In bags."
- Keith Dumble(?) review
"'1977' also gives them the excuse to open the LP with the sampled sound of a Tie Fighter from Star Wars too - class!"
- Westnet.com review
"Select magazine listed the 100 most important days of 1995 and chose the day that Tim Wheeler finished high school as one them!"
- Launch review (quite short, as in erm... one paragraph)
"What it lacks in proficiency it makes up for in energy, and the group's songwriting talent is apparent, though still undeveloped."
- Hotpress review
"This debut heralds the arrival of a major force. If the full feature film lives up to the Trailer then we’re in for a blockbuster. Book now to avoid disappointment."
- Artist Direct review (American version)
"The standout track is 'Petrol', a characteristically deft exercise in soft-loud, start-stop dynamics that points to the band's maturity."
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