Kind of shit.
https://youtu.be/G5gBOlOWCLs
― paulhw, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like they picked up where they left off instead of where they started. Bleh.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Ride were always kind of shit, to be honest. Even Nowhere is a mediocre album at best.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
oh to be honest
― a but (brimstead), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
I try.
Every single track on that album strikes me as a songwriting failure, which wouldn't be a problem if the timbral textures held their own (spoiler: they don't).
To be fair, Isn't Anything and Loveless-era MBV is also prone to this affliction, say, 25% of the time. Self-titled is exempt and hence their greatest achievement in my book.
Perhaps you had to be there. I wasn't.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
I was there but Ride never really delivered. They had their moments like "Dreams Burn Down" and "Crown of Creation". At the time I thought MBV were the most exciting and innovative band out there. And I still do. And wait for the next MBV album like a sheep waiting for the wolf.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link
Thinking back on my late teens, I remember forcing myself to listen to Loveless (among many other critically acclaimed albums, of which the most cringeworthy was undoubtedly Pet Sounds, by an abysmal margin), hoping to bask in its supposed genius, before realizing, far too late to preserve my self-respect, that 'Only Shallow,' 'Sometimes' and 'Soon' were the only tracks I genuinely enjoyed. Now that the dust has settled, I do appreciate it as a paean to the guitar, but it's no more than a 7/10 as far as I'm concerned.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
I don't hear much of Ride in this new song but it's pleasant enough.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 21 February 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
And what about "When You Sleep" and "I Only Said"? They are divine in their haziness and fogginess. The blast with which "When You Sleep" begins is about the most glorious moment of pop music.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
That started somewhat promising but the chorus is awful. I think this one was posted today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5xwjWbBbzo
― daavid, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Sounds as if Pink Floyd circa '87 had invented shoegaze?
― daavid, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Birdman ep is p good tho
Their good tracks are dispersed throughout their discography
Nowhere maybe their strongest string of good to decent song after another
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 22 February 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
the first song does sound like something from their last studio album. the second song would not sound out of place on Today Forever.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 February 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
Ride were great for a brief time, you people are high. what really made them was their drummer. Loz was a absolute beast on the drums and took them to whole different level live. saw them around twelve time because of that drumming.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 February 2017 03:00 (seven years ago) link
Really warmed up to these two new songs. Liking the crisp production of the first one and the second is shoegaze catnip.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 23 February 2017 08:51 (seven years ago) link
Another new one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFHPdbHrMQ
― groovypanda, Thursday, 27 April 2017 07:12 (six years ago) link
This is intensely average.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 June 2017 12:45 (six years ago) link
Very excited to report we have just finished recording a brand new Ride album /// We’ll be in back in touch soon with news, tour dates and a first single real soon /// In the meantime, please sign up to our new mailing list for all official Ride news >>> https://t.co/kNiguUerSt— RIDE (@rideox4) April 4, 2019
― groovypanda, Thursday, 4 April 2019 09:04 (five years ago) link
it's not a proper comeback until the second album eh
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Thursday, 4 April 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
Nice. Really liked their EP last year
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 4 April 2019 10:05 (five years ago) link