Ride Have Released The Eagerly Anticipated Album ‘Weather Diaries’
June 16, 2017
‘Weather Diaries’ is available for purchase and streaming here and you can watch their Track-By-Track Guide to the album here.
The seminal British band have also unveiled the video for their current single ‘All I Want’ premiered by Noisey – Directed by Jade Mortimer.
Following the release of ‘Weather Diaries’ Ride will be embarking on a slew of European festival dates this summer, and what promises to be a truly special homecoming show at Oxford New Theatre on July 10th, after which they will embark on a headline tour of the UK in November. Additionally Ride announced a new intimate London date as part of Erol Alkan’s To The Rhythm residency at XOYO on 28th July, further extending their current collaboration with the feted DJ, producer and remixer.
‘Weather Diaries’ is packed with the classic elements that made Ride one of the defining bands of the early ’90s. Trembling distortion, beautiful harmonies, pounding rhythms, shimmering soundscapes and great songwriting all combine to make an album that’s ambitious in scope, timeless and thoroughly addictive. The album also brings the band back together with mixer Alan Moulder (Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Arctic Monkeys) who mixed their legendary 1990 album Nowhere and produced & mixed its successful follow up Going Blank Again.
“Oxford’s finest shoegazers return with strong results” Uncut, Album of the Month
“Fresh and spontaneous, but also relevant” The Quietus, 9/10
“It’s incredibly satisfying to hear a band reform and sound completely reinvigorated” Drowned In Sound, 9.5/10
**** The Guardian
**** Loud & Quiet
**** DIY
**** Dork
**** The Quietus
***** Drowned In Sound
******** PopMatters
UK Dates
19th June Rough Trade East, London
20th June Fopp, Oxford
22nd June New Slang show, Kingston
23rd June Glastonbury, Pilton,
10th July New Theatre, Oxford,
11th July O2 Ritz, Manchester International Festival. Manchester,
14th July Latitude, Southwold
28th July Erol Alkan’s “To the Rhythm”, XOYO, London
17th August Green Man Festival
7th November London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
8th November Birmingham, O2 Institute
9th November SWX, Bristol,
10th November Beckett, Leeds
12th November O2 Academy, Liverpool,
13th November Boiler Shop, Newcastle,
14th November Queens Hall, Edinburgh,
European Dates
19th October Soy Festival, Nantes
30th October Botanique, Orangerie, Brussels
31st October Le Transbordeur, Lyon
2nd Novermber Pitchfork festival, Paris
3rd November Tivoli Vredenburg, Ronda, Utrecht
4th November Rolling Stone Weekender festival, Weissenhäuser Strand
5th November Astra, Berlin