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Nowhere (CD)

By: Ride (Artist)

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Ride Artist Snapshot:

Formed in 1988 by Oxford art college students, the influential quartet Ride was signed to Alan McGee's now-legendary Creation label based on the strength of their live set. Combining distortion-drenched guitars with melodic vocals, frontmen Mark Gardener and Andy Bell helped shape the "shoegazer" sound that was pioneered by My Bloody Valentine. While Ride's first two albums were largely well received and defined the band's identity, subsequent releases found them experimenting with poppier sounds and losing their audience. After the group's demise in 1996, band members pursued various musical projects, with Bell eventually joining Oasis as bass player.

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DISC 1 for Nowhere (CD) Album By Ride (Artist)
1   Seagull
2   Kaleidoscope
3   In A Different Place
4   Polar Bear
5   Dreams Burn Down
6   Decay
7   Paralysed
8   Vapour Trail
9   Taste
10   Here And Now
11   Nowhere
 

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Review

Spin (p.110) - "NOWHERE features melodies that are gentle like a windstorm, in line with the Stone Roses or American Indie rock."
Entertainment Weekly (1/25/91) - "..the band creates something refreshing from elements that have become alternative-rock cliche...The crucial, and welcome, difference is one of sonic crunch....in waves of feedback and throbbing cacophonies that bounce off each other and give the music potency and force.." - Rating: B

Title Note

One of the seminal records of the shoegazer movement, Ride's NOWHERE typifies all of the best qualities of the movement's sound. Shimmering, psychedelic atmospheres, squalling guitars shot through with distortion, and hypnotic drones balanced by genuine pop songcraft are all on ample display here, and are executed with a precision and mastery that represent the pinnacle of their technique.

"Seagull," the album's opener, pushed by the swirling twin guitar attack of Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, is simultaneously thunderous and radiant. Surging cuts like "Polar Bear" testify to Ride's skill at building dynamic tension and ringing sonic drama. But Ride were more than mere noise-merchants; their debt to psychedelic '60s pop also results in some fine songwriting, as the chiming, arepeggiated pop confection "Taste" reveals. NOWHERE is Ride's finest moment, and as a definitive document of shoegazer bliss, it ranks right alongside My Bloody Valentine's classic LOVELESS.

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