| Coming Down | ||||
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| Released | September 1990 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 42:04 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet [1] | |||
| Producer | John Fryer, [2] Daniel Ash, John A. Rivers | |||
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Coming Down is the first solo album by former Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, and Love and Rockets guitar player Daniel Ash, [3] released by Beggars Banquet in September 1990. [4] The first single, "This Love", was a number two hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. [5] Natasha Atlas sings on many of the album's tracks. [6]
The album peaked at No. 109 on the Billboard 200. [7]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | A− [9] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | |
| Q | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
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." [9] 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." [6] The Buffalo News praised the "furtive, moody, electronically draped reflections on reality and romance." [13] Q described it as "sometimes playful, sometimes moody tinkering [that] is for close friends and relatives only". [11]