Trailer

Trailer is a mini album by the band Ash featuring their first three singles. An expanded edition also includes four B-sides. The album was released in October 1994 through Infectious Records. The band considered it a "trailer" for their future debut album proper, and named it accordingly. "Uncle Pat" was featured in a Heineken advert, which helped to raise the profile of the band, both in Ireland and Britain. Background Trailer was produced by Mark Waterman. Tim Russell mixed "Season", "Intense Thing", "Uncle Pat" and "Get Out". Composition Musically, the sound of Trailer has been tagged as groove rock, noise rock and pop-punk. AllMusic review Ralph Heibutzki suggested listeners should "imagine classic punk maneuvers crossed with Nirvana- and Dinosaur Jr.-style leanings, goosed by a bolt of Mega City Four". Author Dave Thompson wrote in his book Alternative Rock (2000): "A hint of Brit-pop savvy, a dash of older Indy-American fuzz, beaten and blended into something which cites The Buzzcocks as an influence, but can also sound like Black Sabbath." Dialogue was culled from Oscar Wilde and Patrick the Brewer for the recordings.