RIDE - Interplay 2LP (colour vinyl) twee despite their Long Beach roots

despite their Long Beach roots

and the first side is held-back/postponed material while the second side is (in their own words) NOW

The familiar sounds of Rachel Nagy's sultry vocals and Mary Ramirez's garagey guitar backed by a solid crew of veteran Detroit players Dale Wilson

While guitarist Roy Montgomery

who until now had only released material with drum machines

RIDE - Interplay 2LP (colour vinyl) twee despite their Long Beach rootsLimited edition blue colour double vinyl. Ride's place in the shoegaze pantheon is more frail than most would have predicted a decade ago; imagine telling people there would be a crowd trying to write them out of the Big Three for committing the cardinal sin of what, being too Britpop adjacent? Watching Andy Bell join Oasis in their lean years? It doesn't help that Ride had the shortest peak of the triumvirate. There isn't much gaze to be seen here,