With the band recording live, soon the deadline to finish Nowhere was looming, and the pressure was on, resulting in some long days and late nights that ultimately prompted Waterman’s demise. In his absence, mix engineer Alan Moulder, who would go on to work on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, took over. Pearce, Sheldon (22 February 2017). "Listen to Ride's New Song "Home Is a Feeling" | Pitchfork". pitchfork.com . Retrieved 23 February 2017. The 300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985–2014)". Spin. 11 May 2015. p.1 . Retrieved 6 August 2015. 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 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]

Nowhere is truly a classic album and a must listen for anyone who is a fan of the shoegaze and noise pop genres as well as for anyone who finds themselves in a period of angst and is looking for some sonic reassurance that everything is going to be just fine. Ride's co-frontman, guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell had the following to say about the imminent Nowhere 30 tour and reissues: Roughly 6 years after the band’s demise they appeared in a Sonic Youth documentary and played a 20 minute jam session for the film, which was later released in 2002 as “Coming up for Air”. In November of 2014 the band announced that they would be reuniting and released a string of tour dates including gigs in Glasgow, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and New York.

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There's really no frills to how Ride present themselves on stage; the band makes it clear that their performance is all about the music. Don't expect drama, don't expect fog machines or pyrotechnics. When you're as great as Ride, the music and performance stands on its own merit. 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.

Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.463. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. The 50 best shoegaze albums of all time". faroutmagazine.co.uk. 9 July 2019 . Retrieved 2 September 2022. In 2022, Ride announced that the band had been working on a seventh album, set for release in 2023 or 2024. [10] Members [ edit ] The band members were 18 or 19 during the recording of Nowhere. Mark Gardener described it as a "nighttime sort of record", and recalled the band working on the album in the studio during late-night hours, leading to feelings of isolation as a result of the irregular work schedule. [4] Artwork [ edit ]

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Essential Shoegaze Albums That Aren't 'Loveless', PopMatters". PopMatters. 12 November 2020 . Retrieved 2 September 2022. Nowhere was re-released in November 2022 by Wichita recordings. All the original audio reworked and refined, the reissue made available on vinyl and CD. It charted at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart. Ride played the 2022 edition of the Primavera Sound festival, performing Going Blank Again and Nowhere in full on two separate days. [30] The band also toured for the 30th anniversary of Nowhere throughout 2022 and 2023, including a co-headlining "Between Nowhere" tour with The Charlatans (who played Between 10th and 11th in full) in North America. [31] [32] Derogatis, Jim (18 April 1996). " Tarantula review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 6 January 2007. In 2007, Creation Records boss Alan McGee wrote a piece in The Guardian about his anger at the fact that, at the point of writing, Ride had seemingly been written out of music history, even though their impact of Nowhere is immeasurable and the amount of copycat acts the record would spawn. “It epitomised the feeling that something was happening in independent music beyond twee C86 and third form baggy,” McGee wrote.

Retrospectively, Nowhere has been acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of the shoegaze genre. [11] David Bevan of Pitchfork described Nowhere as one of shoegaze's "indisputable masterpieces", [2] and Andy Kellman of AllMusic said that the album exemplified the genre at its "most exciting and mastered", while also being "Ride's zenith". [11] a b c d e Bevan, David (4 February 2011). "Ride: Nowhere [20th Anniversary Edition]". Pitchfork . Retrieved 5 February 2011. a b "The Ride Story: part one". BBC. September 2001. Archived from the original on 7 February 2003. I was 14 and they definitely inspired me to get a band together We made a demo of this one in a real studio, and that’s how we found the producer for the album. There was an EMI studio in London we went to with this new song, and the house engineer, who was our age, was the guy they supplied to do it for that day. We got on so well with him that at the end of the day we decided to ask him to produce the album. That was a guy called Marc Waterman, and he’s gone on to produce loads of bands now. We really loved that version, and it had a really long, stretched-out, slightly Cure-esque feel. Song-wise, it’s a happy song. It’s about going to Reading festival – before it was Reading and Leeds, in the late 80s when they had really good bills. Me, Mark and Loz went together and saw Spacemen 3, the Valentines, House Of Love – loads of our favourites. It would have been the summer of 1989. That would have fallen into the period when I was beginning ideas for lyrics, so I wrote down some ideas from that. It’s about lying in the sun with your mates having a good time – just a happy day.“ Since the break-up, both Bell and Gardener have been more reflective about the group's disintegration, with Bell especially admitting his own part in the process.The Nowhere tour dates are as follows, including a sold out show in the band’s hometown of Oxford as well as London’s The Roundhouse. Main support comes from bdrmmon all dates except the Bedford warm up show, where Lemondazeare opening: The legendary shoegazers reissue their indispensable debut, its incredible follow-up & a collection of their first 4 EPs. Cavanagh, D (2000). The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize. Virgin Publishing. p.613. ISBN 0-7535-0645-9.

a b Williams, Simon (13 October 1990). "Joyriding High". NME. p.38. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000 . Retrieved 10 November 2015. In March 2019, the band announced that their upcoming sixth studio album had already been finished, with the same producer as their previous album, Erol Alkan. The new album, called This Is Not a Safe Place, was released on 16 August 2019. [29] a b c d e f "The Ride Story: part two". BBC. September 2001. Archived from the original on 28 June 2003. 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.

The band toured excessively around this time and the strain it placed on the members started to show; however, they returned with another ecstatically reviewed and commercially accepted album “Going Blank Again”. This was followed by more touring, this time alongside the brit-pop group the Charlatans. Jones, Abby (28 November 2022). "Ride and The Charlatans announce co-headlining "Between Nowhere Tour" ". Consequence . Retrieved 19 February 2023. Barton, Laura (16 April 2015). "Ride reunion: 'More bands should beat the crap out of each other for a while' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 April 2015. Ride’s co-frontman, guitarist and songwriter Andy Bellhad the following to say about the imminent Nowhere 30 tour and reissues: