Ride - Nowhere
Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
1990 Ratings: #120 / 370
User Score
1990 Rank: #37
Liked by 193 people
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BradTasteMusic
77

This album has some unbelievable highlights, and some remarkable ideas. I think the quality of songs varies a bit much though. A few masterpieces, and a lot of good Shoegaze.

Dax_Wilder
89

Ok I underestimated this album a lot. I have a weird relationship with this project, I've known about it for awhile and the song "Vapour Trail" from when I was getting into bands like MBV and Slowdive and really falling in love with the whole Shoegaze sound/genre. At the time back when I heard Vapour Trail I really didnt think it matched up that much to the Shoegaze sound or really what I wanted from the genre in general and thought everything was way more inline with noise-pop than ... read more

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

Sir_Scuppington
69

I can understand the love it gets, but they improved their craft significantly after this.

notchkninspnish
100

My favorite of the Big Three Shoegaze Band albums. The mildly discordant vocal arrangements scratch a weird itch that no other band (or album by this band) can get to for me, but even without factoring that in, "Seagull" and "Dreams Burn Down" are some of the best songs of the genre.

Satellite
83

Dreams Burn Down is so good

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Track List

1Seagull
6:08
91
2Kaleidoscope
3:01
80
3In a Different Place
5:28
83
4Polar Bear
4:45
78
5Dreams Burn Down
6:04
94
6Decay
3:35
79
7Paralysed
5:33
80
8Vapour Trail
4:17
91
Total Length: 38 minutes

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Added on: November 29, 2012