Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
1990 Ratings: #138 / 504
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1990 Ratings: #55
October 15, 1990 / Release Date
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Marc WatermanProducer
RideWriter
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Critic Reviews

SnowyFighter
80

Wwwwwwaaaaaaaavvvvvvvveeeeeeesssssssssss

Wowwwww that album cover is fire. And 1990? Damn. I love Shoegaze so much. It has to be one of my favorite genres. This is some earlyyyy Shoegaze. It’s fuckin goodddd though. What’s cool about this is it’s wayyyyy more energetic than a lot of the other Shozegaze stuff from around the time. It caught me off guard because I didn’t know what I was getting into but yeah it works really well. For example, the opening track Seagull is ... read more

ST4T1C
85

Brief Review: Considering this is prob one of the first shoegaze albums ever, this is a really great first attempt at such a complex and beautiful genre. I’m not fully in love with it, I feel like a lot of the songs on here dont come nearly up to par as others on here, but MAN are the highlights on here fucking spectacular! Great album!

morningsbell
84

Remember when I liked this more than Loveless?

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YuroGhost
69

Nowhere do Ride é... Lindo, porém tranquilo, funciona? Sim, mesmo que precisame de bastante anteção para aproveitar.

todayyo
95

one shoegaze album a day, keep your sanity away

i always see this album appears everytime shoegaze chart is mentioned so i decided to give it a try
woah i thought it was gonna be another chill shoegaze album but this one somehow feels weirdly energetic while still have that atmospheric feeling
the fact that you can still hear what they say in the song is such a weird thing to me consider that vocal in shoegaze usually drowned in the fuzzy-dreamy guitar sound
and no, i'm not throwing ... read more

iggypooped
95

I loved every song in this. It's so cinematic and I just connect with it. It's like a movie soundtrack that's slightly bittersweet. Yes maybe it's not perfect, and it's not the most outstanding instrumentally or lyrically whatever, but that's what I like about it -- it not being perfect makes it even better? I don't know if anyone understands but I feel like this was made for me and I will not explain further.

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