Interplay
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100
The Ride reunion will be ten years old later this year. What Interplay does is show how vital this return has become.
2y
90
There is an anger here we have not previously glimpsed from this band, a willingness to rage against the world today.
2y
90
What’s most apparent about Interplay is how it doesn’t sound like any other Ride record, yet at the same time is an album unmistakably created by Oxford’s finest.
2y
80
Impressive seventh album from shoegaze pioneers.
6mo
80
At times, the album is bold and imposing, at others dejected and foreboding, but at just under an hour in length, not a second is wasted.
2y
80
The more the album continues, the more these become influences absorbed and owned, the sound of a band not so much reinventing as realigning themselves.
2y
80
Ultimately a spankingly good album and a pleasing reminder that age doesn’t have to dim talent.
2y
80
Interplay successfully retains those hippyish vibes, increasingly mixed with anger about the world disintegrating around them. It’s their most adult album yet, and it suits them.
2y
80
Overall: troubled, unflinching, but tuneful and triumphant.
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2y
80
Here on "Yesterday Is Only A Song" and on the best tunes of Interplay, Ride feel wonderfully, unexpectedly, younger than yesterday.
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2y
80
Ride seem to be embrace and move past their illustrious past, resulting in one of the most finessed, intriguing albums of their career to date.
2y
79
Ride continues to fight the good fight on Interplay and provide another welcome addition to the shoegaze canon.
2y
76
This is Ride at their finest in ages might be more an indictment of their previous output than definitive praise of this album specifically, but, on its own merits, Interplay still provides a whole lot to enjoy.
2y
70
Ride continue their second phase with ‘Interplay’, an album full of melodic atmosphere lacking some of the creative yearning heard in their earlier work.
2y
68
Interplay is space rock as solid as it comes, but also deeply indebted to a millennial era about 20 years ago, which both shoegaze and alternative rock have left behind. A different kind of nostalgia, perhaps.
2y
65
Essentially, after spending decades dabbling in different notions of psychedelic rock, Ride have gone synth-pop in 2024.
2y
62
Nearly a decade into their reunion, the shoegaze titans refuse to pander to fans clamoring for their classic sound. Their stubbornness is admirable—if occasionally frustrating.
2y
60
Ultimately, it's commendable that Ride continue to reach beyond their past, but the best moments of Interplay are the ones that remind the listener what made the band so unique to begin with.
2y
I need to try all the music on this album, it's not amazing. It's good to listen to it when you have something on your mind and it wakes you up nicely :)
A disappointing Ride
I have listened to two other Ride albums before, 'Going Blank Again' and 'This Is Not A Safe Place'. And I liked both quite a bit. Sadly their new one, 'Interplay' is a disappointing effort that delivers none of the deep and layered instrumentation of previous albums. Despite the name, it all feels very dry and by the books.
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Track List
| 1 | Peace Sign 4:38 | 69 |
| 2 | Last Frontier 4:09 | 67 |
| 3 | Light in a Quiet Room 6:02 | 73 |
| 4 | Monaco 4:15 | 74 |
| 5 | I Came to See the Wreck 5:57 | 73 |
| 6 | Stay Free 5:00 | 60 |
| 7 | Last Night I Went Somewhere to Dream 4:13 | 58 |
| 8 | Sunrise Chaser 4:18 | 64 |
| 9 | Midnight Rider 4:23 | 71 |
| 10 | Portland Rocks 5:02 | 69 |
| 11 | Essaouira 7:10 | 66 |
| 12 | Yesterday Is Just a Song 3:34 | 62 |
Total Length: 58 minutes
