Ride Your Heart

Bleached - Ride Your Heart
Critic Score
Based on 13 reviews
2013 Ratings: #871 / 1115
User Score
Based on 27 ratings
April 2, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Dead Oceans / Label
Garage Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
musicOMH

If this album doesn’t make teenage girls everywhere want to steal their older brother’s guitar, learn a few power chords and start a band with a couple of friends in their parents’ front room, there’s clearly something very wrong with the youth of today.

80
NME

An album as classic as its faultless Thelma & Louise-ian artwork, the universal themes of ‘Ride Your Heart’ manage to transcend the dated California girl stereotype while knowingly plugging into what still makes the myth so appealing.

70
PopMatters

These songs are catchy in a way that might not surprise you, but the different twists they take, and the different ways they poke at rock tradition, and our expectations of women within that tradition, are fascinating.

70
Consequence of Sound

Hooky garage tracks crackle underneath a heart that beats steady, only occasionally arrhythmic.

66
Pitchfork

Though there's an electric current coursing through Ride Your Heart, it's too often wasted on mundane material-- which is especially disappointing given how zany and lyrically imaginative their previous band was. 

65
Under the Radar

Ride Your Heart is a near perfect exemplification of everything those who own those early singles thought that Bleached could be.

60
DIY

Perhaps this a record that works better under the summer sun, but right now 'Ride Your Heart' doesn’t sound much more than a showcase for surfy style and lo-fi charm.

40
No Ripcord

Bleached have discovered that they have a canny knack for inoffensive rhythms, melodies and harmonies which will immediately appeal. But where this record needed to provide an abrasive counterpoint in the lyrics, they’re more sickly sweet than the music.

tha138
60

Garage-pop that surfs without a twist!

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Track List

  1. Looking For A Fight
  2. Next Stop
  3. Outta My Mind
  4. Dead In Your Head
  5. Dreaming Without You
  6. Waiting By The Telephone
  7. Love Spells
  8. Searching Through The Past
  9. Ride Your Heart
  10. Dead Boy
  11. Guy Like You
  12. When I Was Yours
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Added on: April 1, 2013