![]() ![]() 'Taste' is one of their finest pure pop numbers the moody/driving 'Here and Now' rates well, and the five-minute 'Nowhere' is a nasty distorto-freakout. version was bolstered significantly with the remainder of the Fall EP ('Dreams Burn Down' having reappeared earlier in the record). The tempo picks up for the closing 'Vapour Trail,' a wistful pop song with chiming background guitars galore and mournful strings to close it out. ![]() The endlessly escalating 'Polar Bear' is a high point, featuring expertly placed tom rolls from Colbert. However, patience reveals a five-song suite of sorts, full of lovely instrumental passages that are punctuated with violent jabs of manic guitars. After the upbeat 'Kaleidoscope,' the record falls into a tempo lull that initially seems impenetrable and meandering. 'Seagull' serves as a dynamic opener after a couple seconds of light feedback, bassist Steve Queralt kicks in with a rubbery, elliptical line (reminiscent of a certain Beatles song), which is soon followed by Andy Bell and Mark Gardener's guitar twists and Loz Colbert's alternately gentle and punishing drumming. Undeniably, it's Ride's zenith - dense, tight, hypnotic. But in the end, great pop records necessitate quality songs, which Nowhere delivers throughout. Whir, whoosh, haze, swirl, ad nauseum - this record holds all of these elements at their most exciting and mastered. ![]() All of the common words, phrases, and adjectives commonly used with the short-lived subgenre fit properly here, and they're all positive, every one of them. Ahead of their ‘Nowhere’ 30th anniversary UK tour starting 20th April, shoegaze legends 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. Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era, and with very good reason. ![]()
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