Ride

Formed: 1988 in Oxford, England
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Disbanded: 1996
Genre: Rock
Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, Shoegaze, Dream Pop, Noise Pop, British Trad Rock
Group Members: Loz Colbert, Steve Queralt, Mark Gardener, Andy Bell
Biography: With their first records, Ride created a unique wall of sound that relied on massive, trembling distortion in the vein of My Bloody Valentine but with a simpler, more direct melodic approach. The shatteringly loud, droning neo-psychedelia the band performed was dubbed shoegazing by the British press ...Read full biography
Nowhere
Released: 1990
Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
Critics' Rating:
Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era, and with very good reason. All of the common words, phrases, and adjectives commonly used with the short-lived subgenre fit ...Read full review
Going Blank Again
Released: 1992
Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
Critics' Rating:
From the sounds of the cloistered, chaotic opener, "Leave Them All Behind," Going Blank Again sounds like it could be headed down the same Nowhere path. Guitars as far as the ear can hear -- not much different ...Read full review
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