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Breihan, Tom (23 April 2019). "Ride Announce New Album 'This Is Not A Safe Place,' Share New Single "Future Love": Listen". Stereogum . Retrieved 15 August 2019. This just crashes in right after Seagull and it’s even faster and more hectic, and goes to that mid-60s The Who energy. It’s uplifting and a real fast uptempo pop tune. We hadn’t played this live until this week, which is funny because it’s a really great tune to play, but we never really saw it as that much of an important Ride tune. It was because we’d taken an earlier Ride song called Smile, which was a very downbeat Spacemen 3 kind of song. I took a couple of the verses from that and bastardised them to make a new song, and that was Kaleidoscope. Because it came from another song it had never really felt like a real song in its own right, and we didn’t really appreciate how good it is until this week when we played it – it’s really good.”

And then there's "Vapour Trail." This was Ride's most successful song and for good reason. The watery, jangly guitars and Andy Bell's "la la la laaah's" are an Autumn sky translated to music. By the time the mournful cello cuts through the outro of the song and then is left to close it by itself in somber beauty, your heart is swooning with every note. If you absolutely have to hear one Ride song, this is it. Ahead of their ‘Nowhere’ 30th anniversary UK tour starting 20th April, Ride have announced the details of the reissues of their early classic albums via Wichita Recordings. These will be released on the 4th November and will include the first four EPs ( 'Ride, 'Play', 'Fall', and 'Today Forever'), plus their seminal 1990 debut ‘Nowhere’, and feted 1992 album ‘Going Blank Again’ from their days on Creation Records. Ride’s gauzy dreamscapes fused the ephemeral atmospherics that typified the shoegaze sound of bands like Slowdive and Chapterhouse with the vaporous harmonies of the American West Coast. Yet the band were dismissive of the shoegaze tag, preferring comparisons to the explosive dynamics of My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and Spacemen 3, their songwriting as sharp as The Stone Roses and The Smiths, and their rhythm section as muscular as The Who or Stooges. Breaking into heaven Forever to be known as 'the other shoegazer band', Ride still produced a pair of landmark classics that defined shoegazing music, before dissipating into a different haze. If Loveless hadn't come along, Nowhere would have remained the pinnacle of the whole noisy scene." - jshopa

He then went on to say how when they went to release their sophomore record they already “up against it” as they were accused of not having anything to say by the press and more importantly as McGee noted, “their influence had spread – now they were competing with a hundred shambolic versions of themselves,” he added.

Ride released three EPs between January and September 1990, entitled Ride, Play and Fall. All three EPs made it into the UK top 75, with Play and Fall reaching the top 40. [8] Ride's top-75 placing was a first for Creation Records. [9] The first two EPs were released together as Smile in the USA in July 1990 (and later released in the UK in 1992), while the Fall EP was incorporated into the CD version of their first album, Nowhere, released in October 1990. Bell said that the band kept putting out new material to remain fresh in listeners' minds, comparing it to the release schedules of the Beatles and the Jam. [10] We didn’t want to put our singles on the album, we wanted to start again and do an entire album at once. That was one of the rules we had. Then we found a picture [ the non-cresting wave featured on the Nowhere album sleeve]. In February 1992 the band broke into the UK top 10 with " Leave Them All Behind", and the following month saw the release of the band's second album Going Blank Again. [8] However, its followup, " Twisterella", disappointed and barely scraped the top 40 despite extremely high expectations, and Creation stopped promoting the album as a result. The band then embarked on an ill-fated American tour. The strain within the band was already apparent, Bell stating "By the time the second album came out we were touring too much. We were tired. We then took time off, but it was too much time off". [14] Change in musical direction (1994–1996) [ edit ] Ride's co-frontman, guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell had the following to say about the imminent Nowhere 30 tour and reissues:In 2022, Ride announced that the band had been working on a seventh album, set for release in 2023 or 2024. [10] Members [ edit ] On 19 November 2014, it was announced that Ride had reunited again for a series of tour dates in Europe and North America, in May and June 2015. [24] On 10 and 17 April 2015 Ride performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, following a live performance broadcast by KCRW on 8 April 2015. [25] The band appeared at different venues and festivals, in northern America and Europe, including Primavera Sound Festival, Melt! Festival and others. They also toured America with fellow shoegaze band DIIV. The reunion was originally meant for touring only, but after playing shows together again, the band decided that the experience should also lead to the recording of a new album. [10] Moore, Sam (19 October 2021). "Ride announce 'Nowhere' 30th anniversary UK tour for 2022". NME . Retrieved 19 February 2023. Listen to Ride's first new song in 20 years 'Charm Assault' ". Nme.com. 21 February 2017 . Retrieved 20 June 2021.