Coming Down (album)

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Coming Down
Studio album by
Daniel Ash
Released1991
GenreAlternative rock
LabelBeggars Banquet Records[1]
ProducerJohn Fryer[2]
Daniel Ash chronology
Coming Down
(1991) 		Foolish Thing Desire
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 stars[1]
Entertainment WeeklyA-[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide3/5 stars[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide2.5/5 stars[6]

Coming Down is the first solo album by former Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, and Love and Rockets guitar player Daniel Ash.[7] The first single, "This Love", was a number two hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States.[8] Natasha Atlas sings on many of the album's tracks.[9]

The album peaked at No. 109 on the Billboard 200.[10]

Critical reception[]

Entertainment Weekly called the album "insidiously listenable — all thick, pulsating drums and sinewy melodies, topped by Ash’s studio-processed and thus inhuman-sounding vocals."[4] Trouser Press wrote that the album "takes off in a bunch of different directions, from sedate cocktail swing to low-key salsa (!) to somber atmospherics to jittering dance noise."[9] The Buffalo News praised the "furtive, moody, electronically draped reflections on reality and romance."[11]

Track listing[]

  1. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  2. "Coming Down Fast"
  3. "Walk This Way" (Ash, Tito Puente)
  4. "Closer to You"
  5. "Day Tripper" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  6. "This Love"
  7. "Blue Angel"
  8. "Me and My Shadow" (Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose, Al Jolson)
  9. "Candy Darling"
  10. "Sweet Little Liar"
  11. "Not So Fast"
  12. "Coming Down"

Personnel[]

  • Bass - Daniel Ash (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 to 11)
  • Producer - Daniel Ash, John Fryer (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7 to 9, 12), John A. Rivers (tracks: 6, 10)
  • Vocals - Natacha Atlas (tracks: 1, 3 to 8, 11, 12)
  • Vocals, guitar - Daniel Ash

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 1: MUZE. p. 268.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. ^ Thompson, Dave (February 19, 2000). "Alternative Rock". Hal Leonard Corporation – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Coming Down at AllMusic
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Coming Down". EW.com.
  5. ^ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 693.
  6. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 25.
  7. ^ "Daniel Ash | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Daniel Ash". Billboard.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "Love and Rockets". Trouser Press. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Daniel Ash". Billboard.
  11. ^ "DANIEL ASH POP". The Buffalo News.



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