This Is Not a Safe Place
Ride return with the 6th studio album of their career and their second since reforming in 2014 and signing to Wichita. As with their previous album, Weather Diaries, Erol Alkan was in the producer’s chair, and Alan Moulder (with Caesar Edmunds) took care of the mixing (making this the fourth Ride album he has worked on). Gathering influences from sources such as the Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican, and the post punk sound of The Fall and Sonic Youth, Ride have made an album which contains echoes of their earliest days as a band, while bringing these elements into 2019. Both musically and lyrically, this is clearly an album made by a band who love being back together and who are at the very top of their game.
On their second post-reunion album, the shoegaze band sound emboldened, merrily tinkering with their legacy.
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Shoegaze pioneers Ride return with their second LP in as many years with an eye on breaking shoegaze into the pop landscape.
With the re-emergence of interest in shoegaze in recent years, it comes as no surprise that one of the genre's cornerstone bands, Ride, cont...
Continuing with what made 'Weather Diaries' so invigorating, Ride still show no sign of basking in past glories. From the shoegaze-tinged
There are sparkling peaks on This Is Not A Safe Place, for sure, but between them there’s just far too much hard slog on Ride's latest album.
Around 2016, something seemingly impossible happened: the beloved alternative rock/shoegaze outfit Ride officially reunited after roughly 20 years apart...
Since the Oxford four-piece reformed in 2014, they’ve enjoyed a riveting renaissance