Ash Red release their debut album 'The Foreign Game'
- Richard Blowes
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The Foreign Game is the debut album from Cork post-punk power trio Ash Red and is available now on all streaming platforms and a 12'" black vinyl record.
Album: The Foreign Game
Band: Ash Red
Release date: November 14 2025
Out today, November 14, is The Foreign Game, the debut LP from Cork post-punk power trio Ash Red.
The songs on the album all contain uniting themes of isolation, desire, fear, angst/anger and a general sense of “otherness”. Using football as its frame, the album title draws on the history of ‘Rule 27’, which the GAA used to forbid its members from playing so-called ‘foreign games’ until 1971. The band themselves use this as an analogy for the importance of being yourself.
Deko, the frontman of OG Dublin punks Paranoid Visions had this to say on hearing the album: "This absolute banger of a debut album from Cork three piece post punk, alternative indie rockers Ash Red is crammed full of brilliant songs with The Cure being a major influence along with Buzzcocks, The Teardrop Explodes, Wire and Supergrass. Defo in my top ten albums of 2025, possibly best Irish album of 2025."
The album was recorded in Youghal's Claycastle Studios and produced by Tris Dalton & the band.
The album track listing is as follows:
First half
Take Me
Control
Hopeless
Friends?
Island's Edge
Second half
Alone Again
DB COOPER
Just Words
Enough
The Foreign Game
The vinyl album is available to pre order here:
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