Consensus is mainly positive apart from you, it seems!
http://www.metacritic.com/music/weather-diaries/ride/critic-reviews
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 June 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
I admit I haven't had any interest in listening. I mean, I interviewed Andy for the reunion and all as well, but this seems...unneeded, I guess the word is.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 June 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
I'm with Alfred - this is kinda shitty dad rock.
― BlackIronPrison, Friday, 16 June 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
What can I say? I'm a shitty dad.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
And actually it feels really adolescent to me; overly idealistic, gauche, lyrically clumsy. All of which are things I associate with Ride anyway and I kind of like how familiar these failings are. And the feelings they inspire too. I didn't think / know I wanted a Ride album in 2017 but I'm glad I've got one right now.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 16 June 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
Three listens in and I'm finding this absolutely tremendous. A loving tribute to their early sound, updated. Not knocking the first two records off the perch quite yet, but solidly their their best and one of the best reunion records I can recall.
― Davey D, Saturday, 17 June 2017 07:09 (six years ago) link
*third best
Nice. I have high expectations after Slowdive's homerun on their last album.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 17 June 2017 07:46 (six years ago) link
Gonna have to buck the ILM trend of half-listening to something then denouncing it as the worst shit ever made and say it's pretty good
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 17 June 2017 09:16 (six years ago) link
Listening now. They've lost the single thing that made them great (squalling guitars) but some of the songwriting is quite nice, I suppose (Home Is A Feeling). Opening track is a dreadful dirge
― imago, Saturday, 17 June 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
Title track an even more dreadful dirge omg come on lads
― imago, Saturday, 17 June 2017 11:54 (six years ago) link
Squally bit at the end of the title track is how the album should have begun - and taken it from there
― imago, Saturday, 17 June 2017 11:58 (six years ago) link
Caught Nora having a proper dance to Lannoy Point in the living room this morning = trust her instinct more than LJ's.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 17 June 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Also if you think the squalling guitars are the 'single' thing that made them great then you've missed the point(s).
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 17 June 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
Ooh, Cali is pretty good
― imago, Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Worked out my beef with Lannoy Point - that Cure riff comes in once too often. Tips it from enjoyable jam into dirge. It's growing on me a little though
― imago, Saturday, 17 June 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
Cali is by far the best track though
― imago, Sunday, 18 June 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
was never really a big fan so slept on this, guess I'll give it a listen today but you aren't all filling me with confidence.
― akm, Sunday, 18 June 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
Verse of Charm Assault keeps getting stuck in my head now
― imago, Monday, 19 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
I like what I've heard of this. Not quite the breathtaker that the new Slowdive is, but definitely cool. Hard not to be down with new Ride.
― jterich, Monday, 19 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
I really like Cali. Trying to work out what it reminds me of...I'm thinking late-era Pixies (but not vocally).
― Warren's Treat (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 19 June 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
It's stuck in my head permanently now. Not sure - maybe it shares DNA with Catherine Wheel at their most American? Blur? Sonic Youth? Really it just feels like Ride perfecting themselves again
― imago, Monday, 19 June 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
Melodically bits of Cali remind me of Beulah. Which is odd.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 05:03 (six years ago) link
I think it's Letter to Memphis that it reminds me of
― Warren's Treat (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
Their Glastonbury set is on iplayer now (and is good)
― Warren's Treat (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 24 June 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah. Basically all my favourite Ride songs.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 25 June 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
my god, I've been putting off the new Ride album bcz I was worried it wouldn't be great and it is... very not great. Depressingly unremarkable and mediocre and completely generic; I'm not getting Ride from this at all
― he not like the banana (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
it's not _actually offensive_ to me other than being associated with the name ride. its completely unspecial, not actually good.
― popcorn michael awaits trumptweet (Hunt3r), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Erol producing too, which used to mean something.
― piscesx, Monday, 3 July 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
Surely the best Ride LP in 25 years?
― the pinefox, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
nah that'd be Three Fact Fader
― imago, Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
;)
why do they suddenly fade the drums at the end of 'leave it all behind'? fairly jarring. the live version is way better
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 9 July 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
So new one coming out. Mildly excited since I really liked the stop-gap EP they put out a year ago. New single however is pretty slight (reminds me of a 2nd tier Real Estate track).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/album/6h5jv9bwnNkYPyfOQMEA0p?si=2DMmQoGJSOG6O4vSuZkCGg
I really like this
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
"Jump Jet" should be a single
I'm seeing these guys in two months but had no idea there was also a new album. Thanks for letting me know.
― Bee OK, Friday, 16 August 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Jump Jet definitely seems to be the Cali of this album (deep cut that was so great it became a single well after the album cycle)
― imago, Friday, 16 August 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
I'm seeing them today (an acoustic set and CD signing at Rough Trade).
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 17 August 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
Their lyrics are SO bad.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 18 August 2019 07:26 (four years ago) link
that...has never not been a thing
― imago, Sunday, 18 August 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
Twisterella lyrics are sublime
― husserl gang (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Enjoying this new album. “Eternal Recurrence” is the standout for me so far.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Early on the lyrics were acceptably adolescent because they basically were adolescent, and so was I. Now I'm 40 and they're pushing 50 and the lyrics are STILL adolescent, I'm not quite as tolerant...
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
Yeah the lyrics, i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first. They were a classic 'nothing to say' band but i never really wanted that from them anyway.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 21 August 2019 12:01 (four years ago) link
i mean even as a kid i realised it had been A Bad Idea to print them on the sleeve of the 2nd album, as opposed to REM style '1 line from each song' like they had on the first
Absolutely OTM, especially 'Not Fazed' and 'Making Judy Smile'.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 21 August 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I am digging this album although there is very little to it that tells me it was made in 2019. I think they could’ve made this exact album 10 or even 20 years ago. That’s not a slight, just noting that it feels like it time traveled to my ears.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
last week i bought Bauhaus ticket, today i bought Ride tickets. i hope i warm up to the new album. this band has always been great live and have seen them around 15 times now.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 00:42 (four years ago) link
Listening to the new album 'cos I found out I can see them live tonight... Jump Jet and Future Love sound pretty great!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Jump Jet and Fifteen Minutes probably my favourites.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link