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- Envy (Garbled Online)
"It’s far better than anything they’ve done in the last five years"
- Envy (Dotmusic)
"Ash are, well, still good old Ash. Everyone knows they've been cranking out three-minute pop garage rock since their teens and can knock out a hit out before brekkie."
- Envy (NME)
"They don't sulk, whine, moan like beaten bitches, wear black, take smack or come from Manchester. Yet Ash rule."
- Envy (Phase 9)
"A brand new single from Ash in advance of their forthcoming greatest hits compilation, and it’s yet another instant success."
- Envy (Atomicduster)
"A brand new single from Ash in advance of their forthcoming greatest hits compilation, and it’s yet another instant success."
- Envy (Drowned In Sound)
"Don't take them for granted, they're not going to be around forever, and even if they are, they'll look pretty shit past 40, and surely, this gold seam of songwriting magnificence can't keep going for another 19 singles?"
- Envy (Rock City)
"Over the ten years Ash have been in existence, I am pleased to say that I can look back on this group and say they have truly grown, never stood still, and their music developed in style and content."
  
- There's A Star (Atomicduster)
"This song, a distant cousin of tracks like Gone the Dream, makes a pretty tune at first, but it soon becomes repetitive and nauseating, causing its victim to turn off the radio."
- There's A Star (Drowned In Sound)
"This is Tim in his finest James Bond moment, but please don’t release any more off the album. I want a new one."
- There's A Star (Rock City)
"Drummer Rick McMurray won most fanciable male at this year’s ‘Smash Hits’ awards."
- There's A Star (Phase 9)
"One of my favourite tracks from 'Free All Angels' sensibly gets the single release treatment, as the guitar-slinging Irish quartet meet John Barry head on in a soaring rush of power chords and sweeping strings."
  
- Candy (Atomicduster)
"Not necessarily MY favourite track on the album. I really can't see how this came from the group, although hopefully it will find them a wider audience."
- Candy (Drowned In Sound)
"Ash are milking Free All Angels in the same way they did 1977 (A fifth single is planned). But who could blame them? If you've got an album where every track could be a single you may as well go for it (That doesn't apply to you Kelly 'Step on my old size nines' Jones)."
- Candy (Dotmusic)
"The luck of the Irish maybe, but everything Ash touch recently turns to...candy!"
- Candy (Rock City)
"Ash have decided that now is the time to show that they can croon with the best of them."
- Candy (NME)
"Easily the strongest of the tracks lifted from 'Free All Angels', this is the sound of a band growing up."
  
- Sometimes (Atomicduster)
"If this doesn't become a major top ten hit the nation should hang its head in shame."
- Sometimes (Drowned In Sound)
"'Sometimes' this time shows Tim Wheeler putting down the electric and blending acoustic strums with heartfelt lyrics."
- Sometimes (Dotmusic)
"You can imagine the Famous Five slapping this on the stereo and guzzling lashings of ginger beer."
- Sometimes (Rock City)
"It's the right time of year for this type of music so put your 'Cannibal Corpse' albums away and get with the summer spirit."
- Sometimes (NME)
"Basically a My Guy magazine photo love story set to music, and would be the perfect showstopper in an indie version of Grease."
- Sometimes (Q)
"Lazer-Gun Nun's Melon Farmer, with charmingly unsteady backing vocals from Charlotte Hatherley. Proving what exactly? That they can do carbon copy punk if they feel like it?"
 
- Burn Baby Burn (Dotmusic)
"A good old fashioned burst of punk-pop energy, 'Burn Baby Burn' finds Tim Wheeler and co heads down, legs astride, frantically scraping their guitars as though they were trying to get rid of a particularly stubborn stain"
- Burn Baby Burn (Atomicduster)
"'Burn Baby Burn' will have hoardes of teenage boys rushing for the Kleenex when they see the cheerleader laden video, and I just about used mine up when I heard this song for the first time."
- Burn Baby Burn (Drowned In Sound)
"Better a half-decent rock band at number 1 than a bunch of all-singing, very little dancing Irish twats, eh?"
- Burn Baby Burn (NME)
"Makes Ash setting fire to a heap of Westlife CDs in blissful ignorance of the fact that their own songs are as formulaic as the Bonsai Boyzone all the more amusing."
- Burn Baby Burn (Phase 9)
"Mixed by Alan Moulder, the song is a turbo-charged hook-laden jaunt through frantic guitars and bittersweet melody."
- Burn Baby Burn (Q)
"The video for Burn Baby Burn, which features foxy cheerleaders and therefore cannot fail."
 
- Shining Light (Dotmusic)
"Disconcertingly, it opens with a lone guitar which sounds as though it's come from Billy Bragg's 'Milkman Of Human Kindness'."
- Shining Light (Atomicduster)
"If you are an ardent Ash fan from yesteryear it’s quite possible that you won’t be too keen on their latest offering."
- Shining Light (Q)
"The first single from their third album, Free All Angels, is boisterously chirpy pop-rock in the vein of Feeder or Foo Fighters."
- Numbskull (Hotpress)
"I cannot listen to the opening, title track of this EP without seeing Tim Wheeler up to devilment in a sordid hotel room. Whether that's a good thing or not, you'll have to judge for yourself."
- Numbskull (NME)
"For this is the sound of teeth-grinding, grey-misted pre-menstrual tension. And it sucks."
- Jack Names The Planets/Don’t Know (Hotpress)
"Despite their youth (Tim, the guitarist and vocalist is 17, drummer Rick is 18, and Mark is a tender 16, bless him) Ash have already released a single that is simply delicious. It’s short, it buzzes, and you know that you’re hearing something precious from the first listen."
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