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Ride

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Forfans of shoegaze and uk indie rock, creation records devotees, listeners into mbv/slowdive, and curious newcomers to ride.
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The Profile

Ride are an English shoegaze band formed in Oxford in 1988 by Mark Gardener, Andy Bell, Steve Queralt and Loz Colbert. Signed to Creation Records, they helped define the genre with Nowhere (1990) and Going Blank Again (1992), split in 1996 after Tarantula, and reunited in 2014 to release Weather Diaries (2017), This Is Not a Safe Place (2019) and Interplay (2024).

Formed in Oxford and signed to Creation Records alongside My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream. Early EPs Ride and Play were compiled as Smile (1990). The band reunited in 2014. Reunion-era releases were produced/mixed with Erol Alkan and Alan Moulder. John Leckie produced Carnival of Light.

DeBaser’s reviews frame Ride as key architects of shoegaze, with energy and melody driving their early output. Nowhere and the EP era (Smile/Today Forever) are praised as peaks, while Carnival of Light gets mixed notes amid Britpop-era shifts. The 2014 reunion is lauded: Weather Diaries and This Is Not A Safe Place mark a confident return. Interplay extends their palette with 80s synth-pop hues.

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