New Entry: Sun Silva Release New Single "Ride"

London-based indie rock/psych band Sun Silva have released their new single "Ride".

The song is out now. Grab it here and stream it below.

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New Entry: Ride Unveil New Single "Clouds of Saint Marie"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have unveiled their new single "Clouds of Saint Marie".

The song is taken from their upcoming sixth studio album 'This Is Not A Safe Place', which will be out this Friday, August 16. Pre-order your copy here.

Take a listen below.

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Watch: Ride Share Music Video For "Repetition"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have shared the video for their latest single "Repetition".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming sixth studio album 'This Is Not A Safe Place', which will be out on August 16. Pre-order your copy here.

Directed by Luke Logan, it focusses on a washing machine as the swirling layers of sound erupt around it. “Directing for the Ride guys has been absolutely awesome, the track has this mechanical, entropic feel, almost like it’s spiraling out of control and I wanted to match that with the video. Despite having to destroy several washing machines in the process, I think we managed to capture the feeling of the track really well...” he says.

Take a look below.

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Single "Repetition"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered their new single "Repetition".

The song is taken from their upcoming sixth studio album 'This Is Not A Safe Place', which will be out on August 16. Pre-order your copy here.

UPDATE 08/07/2019: "Repetition" is our new Single of the Week!

Of the track, Andy Bell said: "I haven’t got tired yet of blasting this track. 'Repetition' is at the absolute heart of “This Is Not A Safe Place". It was one of the very first songs written for the album, and has always felt to me like one of the best songs I’ve written.

"It has a great dual harmony vocal from myself and Mark. Steve came up with the brilliant Juno 6 bassline that starts the song, which he overdubbed on our last day of recording for the album, Loz puts down a monster of a drum track, it’s both very experimental and very pop in approach and that’s what Ride always tried to do in the early days. For me it succeeds in bringing me back to all of the things we were into and talked about when we were 18, but also being of the moment, in 2019.

"I know I am speaking for the whole band, and Erol, when I say we are really proud of this record, and we hope you enjoy it. "

Take a listen below.

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Watch: Ride Premiere Music Video For "Future Love"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered the video for their latest single "Future Love".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming sixth studio album 'This Is Not A Safe Place', which will be out on August 16. Pre-order your copy here.

Of the track, Andy Bell said, "Future Love is a song about the beginning of a relationship, when everything feels possible.".

The video was directed by Jacob Hopewell. Watch it below.

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Ride Announce New LP 'This Is Not A Safe Place', Stream "Future Love"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have announced the release of their sixth studio album 'This Is Not A Safe Place'.

The follow-up to Weather Diaries, will be out on August 16th via Wichita Recordings, and was once again produced by Erol Alkan, and mixed by Alan Moulder with Caesar Edmunds at Assault and Battery in London. Pre-order your copy here.

Gathering influences from sources such as the Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican, and the post punk sound of The Fall and Sonic Youth, Ride have made an album which contains echoes of their earliest days as a band, while bringing these elements into 2019. Both musically and lyrically, this is clearly an album made by a band who love being back together and who are at the very top of their game.

Of their new single, Andy Bell said, "Future Love is a song about the beginning of a relationship, when everything feels possible.".

Check out the album's tracklist and take a listen to 'Future Love' below.

Tracklist:
01. R.I.D.E.
02. Future Love
03. Repetition
04. Kill Switch
05. Clouds of Saint Marie
06. Eternal Recurrence
07. 15 Minutes
08. Jump Jet
09. Dial Up
10. End Game
11. Shadows Behind the Sun
12. In This Room

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Watch: ISLAND Unleash Music Video For "Ride"

London indie rock/alt band ISLAND have unleashed the video for their latest single "Ride".

The song is part of your current playlist and is taken from their forthcoming debut album 'Feels Like Air’, set to be released on 6 April 2018 through Frenchkiss Records. Pre-order you copy here.

The video was shot by Tom Pollard, Vince Lee and Adrian Lee. Take a look below.

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Watch: Ride Reveal "Catch You Dreaming" Music Video

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have revealed the video for their latest single "Catch You Dreaming".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their brand new EP 'Tomorrow's Shore', which is out today (16th February). Buy your copy here.

Said Loz of the video: "“We wanted to call to mind our more humble origins and the first demo recording sessions we did together back in 1988.  Some personal memorabilia from that time also features in the video including photos, sketches, posters, and even the original four-track we recorded our first demo on!”

And from the video's director, Niall Trask: “For me the song evoked feelings of human memory, time and travel. So it seemed natural to capture it visually with collage. We incorporated the wave element so familiar in Ride’s art direction, their foundations in Banbury, the energy of a live show, all bound together with a performance scenario."

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Ride Announce New EP 'Tomorrow's Shore', Stream New Song "Catch You Dreaming"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have announced they will release their new EP titled 'Tomorrow's Shore' on 16th February.

The follow-up to last year's album Pulsar, was recorded with Erol Alkan, the legendary DJ, producer and remixer who produced the band's latest album, Weather Diaries.

Speaking of ‘Catch You Dreaming’, lead guitarist and vocalist Andy Bell says: " “Catch You Dreaming” is written from the perspective of being one of the last two people alive, watching as the Universe is ending. The protagonist looks back over the time when humanity existed, realising that we as humans brought about our own inevitable demise. Then the couple look back over their own lives of shared memories and as they are sharing this moment, everything vaporises. It’s a love song about fate, nostalgia, and having no regrets.

" The song itself was intended to be a part of “Weather Diaries”, and recording started during the sessions in Autumn 2016. But we never managed to record a definitive version at the time and decided to come back to it later as part of a follow up EP, which is now finished, and titled “Tomorrow’s Shore”. The EP was made with an identical process to “Weather Diaries” and we see it as very much tied to the album. "

Pre-order the EP here, check out the tracklist and take a listen to their new single 'Catch You Dreaming' below.

Tracklist:
01. Pulsar
02. Keep It Surreal
03. Cold Water People
04. Catch You Dreaming

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Song "Pulsar"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered their brand new track "Pulsar".

The song is "built around a central pulsing rhythm and the band's signature wall of swooping, fuzzed out guitars. It was recorded with Erol Alkan, the legendary DJ, producer and remixer who produced the band's latest album 'Weather Diaries'.

Loz had this to say about their brand new song: “Pulsar re-imagines old organ samples, transmissions from space, effects, heavy beats and pulsing chords. The song title tips its head to the 60’s instrumental ’Telstar’ in name and theme; and the idea was to come up with some kind of ‘space anthem’ about light, existence, travel and return. The band all contributed to make the song what it is, and it all really came together in the studio when we worked with Erol Alkan once again, following on from the success of the ‘Weather Diaries’ sessions.”

Have a listen below.

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Watch: Ride Premiere Music Video For "Cali"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered the video for their current single "Cali".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their latest album 'Weather Diaries', which came out on June 16 via Wichita Records. Grab your copy here.

The video was directed by Niall Trask. Watch below.

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Watch: Ride Reveal Music Video For "All I Want"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have revealed the video for "All I Want".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their upcoming new album 'Weather Diaries', which will be out this Friday (June 16) via Wichita Records. Pre-order your copy here.

The video was directed by Jade Mortimer. Watch below.

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Single "Lannoy Point"

A week ahead of the release of their new LP, British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered their new single and album opener, "Lannoy Point".

'Weather Diaries' will be out on June 16 via Wichita Records. We have already heard ‘Charm Assault‘, ‘Home Is A Feeling‘ and ‘All I Want‘, Ride release ‘Weather Diaries on June 16.

Pre-order the album here, and have a listen to the new track below.

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Single "All I Want"

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have premiered their catchy new single "All I Want".

The song is taken from their upcoming new album 'Weather Diaries', their first album in 21 years, which will be out on June 16 via Wichita Records. Pre-order your copy here.\

Talking about the track and the album's "political" moments, Andy Bell said: “The day we recorded ‘All I Want,’ Theresa May had announced that her government would be making firms list their foreign workers. As it turned out that never happened because of the outcry about it, but that was the origin of the line comparing the U.K. to 1930’s Germany. It’s not like Ride are ‘going political’ it’s more that the current state of the UK is so terrible that we could not avoid writing about it when we were writing lyrics for the album.”

Have a listen below.

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Ride Confirm New Album 'Weather Diaries', Air "Charm Assault" Music Video

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have have officially announced 'Weather Diaries', their first album in over 20 years.

Produced by legendary DJ, producer and remixer Erol Alkan, ‘Weather Diaries’, will be released on on June 16th via Wichita Recordings, and is packed with all the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early ‘90s.

It also brings the band back together with mixer Alan Moulder (Arctic Monkeys, Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers) who mixed their seminal 1990 album ‘Nowhere’ and produced it’s follow up ‘Going Blank Again’. Pre-order your copy here.

Tracklist:
01. Lannoy Point
02. Charm Assault
03. All I Want
04. Home Is a Feeling
05. Weather Diaries
06. Rocket Silver Symphony
07. Lateral Alice
08. Cali
09. Integration Tape
10. Impermanence
11. White Sands

The band have also aired the video for their latest single "Charm Assault", watch it below.

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New Entry: Ride Premiere New Single "Home Is A Feeling"

24 hours after you heard the first new material from Ride  in over twenty years, here's their hypnotic new song "Home Is A Feeling".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new album, due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings. 

About the track, Mark Gardener says: "‘Home Is A Feeling’ to me is like a slow, wide-screen, sonically, layered, slowed motion warm wash. Like returning home as dawn rises totally exhausted and spangled after a long ..long ...big, great night out’"

Andy Bell says: “Out of all the new songs ‘Home Is A Feeling’ comes closest to the early Ride sound. We felt comfortable going vintage on this tune because the album we are making has a pretty broad sonic scope. It’s a short and sweet, melodic tune, with stacked harmonies, reverbed-out guitars, slowed down drums, and a huge distorted bass sound. Erol put his sage-scented electronic wizards hat on to sample up some of our harmonies and make them into a synthesiser preset, which we ended up using on this and some of the other tunes too. We wanted this song to sound jet lagged, so everything on it was recorded with varispeed, either faster or slower than real time. It’s like 1966 Beatles meets 1988 MBV… in other words, Ride.”

Stream the track below.

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New Entry: Ride Return With "Charm Assault", Their First New Song in 20 Years

British shoegaze pioneers Ride have released their excellent new single "Charm Assault", their first new music in 20 years.

The song is taken from Ride's forthcoming album, produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by the band's longtime collaborator, Alan Moulder, and due to be released Summer 2017 on Wichita Recordings. 

UPDATE 27/02: "Charm Assault" is our new Single of the Week!

About the track, Andy Bell says: "Charm Assault is a pretty straightforward expression of frustration and disgust at the people who currently run our country. The tour in 2015 was a good way of reminding us what we were good at in the first place and Charm Assault feels like a natural continuation from our peak. When we started writing together again we tried to imagine we'd kept on making music all this time, and this was just the latest one."

The band's last full-length record was 'Tarantula', released back in March 1996. The band broke up later that year. After a brief reconciliation in 2001 for a live televised performance, Ride officially reunited in 2014.

Stream the track below.

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New Entry: The Cure's Robert Smith Remixes Ride's "Vapour Trail"

Robert Smith with Ride's Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, 1991

The Cure's Robert Smith has remixed Ride's classic track "Vapour Trail".

Smith's 'Trail Mix' of the song has been done to promote 'Nowhere25', the 25th anniversary edition of Ride's debut album 'Nowhere' (originally released on October 15th 1990), which will be out on November 6. Pre-order it here.

Stream it below.

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Mark Gardener & Robin Guthrie To Release 'Universal Road' This Month

Mark Gardener, the frontman for the reunited influential British shoegaze band Ride, and Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie,will release their collaborative album 'Universal Road' this month.

Despite the album was recorded in France back in 2013, couldn't been released before because of a variety of other commitments and projects. The record will finally see the light on March 23 through Soleil Après Minuit.

If you pre-order your copy directly from robinguthrie.com , it will come with a free limited edition CD of the 2012 track 'The Places We Go', which is not included on the album.

Check out the tracklist and listen to the 2012 single "The Places We Go" below:

01. Universal Road

02. Dice

03. Amnesia

04. Old Friend

05. Yesterday’s News

06. Cry For Survival

07. Sometime

08. Triumphant

09. Reason

10. Blind