Twilight of the Innocents

Twilight of the Innocents is the fifth studio album by Ash, released on June 29, 2007 in Ireland and July 2, 2007 in the United States and the United Kingdom. The album was produced by Tim Wheeler, and mixed by Michael Brauer.

Production history

In 2006, Ash bought the lease for three years for a recording studio in New York, and decided to record their follow up to 2004's Meltdown here. This album marks the band's first release since returning to its original "power trio".

The songs recorded from this album were intended to have a substantially different sound from the Californian rock of "Meltdown" and to acquire more of a "tight 70s guitar band sound", and less of a polished sound that their previous albums had. The band planned to road test their new tracks by "playing out and about in tiny New York bars, unannounced, just for fun."

By September, the album had the working title of 5.5, due to the band considering the album to be their fifth and a half album. The band were continuing to record demos, with the intention of using 14 or 15 of the demos to record for the album itself. This month the band also played their debut gig since returning to a three, their first in 14 months. The gig was held in New York, at a party by the record producer and DJ Arthur Baker. The band debuted two new tracks at the party: "What Is the Meaning?" and "Roulette".