Ash Teenage Wildlife [ECHO Music]

Marking 25 years of a 28-year-old band is a rather spurious basis for any Greatest Hits, but

Tim Wheeler and co. are forgiven for this bumper compilation, a non-chronological anthology of a singles band which operates more like a curated playlist. That the material still lands a quarter-century after the group first bottled the giddy effervescence of teenage life is testament to Ash’s staying power. As either starter pack for the uninitiated or a collector’s edition for devotees, Teenage Wildlife chronicles a band defying the ravages of time.

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