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Charm Assault
by Ride
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Best New songRide — Charm Assault
Posted by LetsLoop on February 22, 2017, 6:29 pm Shoegaze pioneers @Ride are back and have just shared their first new song in over 20 years! Charm Assault is the lead single to their upcoming 5th album, which follows up 1996's Tarantula and will be released later this year on Wichita Recordings.Here's what frontman Andy Bell had to say about the band's comeback single:
"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."
@Erol Alkan, who produced the new album, also shared a few words:
"Nowhere and Going Blank Again were big records for me and my friends when we were growing up. I’ve vaguely known Andy for a few years through his brother-in-law but we didn’t actually meet until a couple of years back. I had an email from them asking if I’d like to collaborate with the band, and once I’d heard the demos, I was 100% in. And’s very well versed in electronic music, so we had a common bond in that as well as alternative music. The new music contains all the great elements you want from Ride—Great songs, loud guitars, beautiful harmonies, powerful rhythms."
If you're wondering what the band have been up to for the last 20 years... in 1996 Andy formed @Hurricane #1 and had a few pretty big hits like Step Into My World and Only The Strongest Will Survive before breaking up in 1999; he then went on to join @Oasis and later @Beady Eye. Mark Gardener and Laurence Colbert went on to form the short-lived band Animalhouse, before going their separate ways; Gardener went solo and released the album These Beautiful Ghosts, whilst Colbert played drums for @The Jesus and Mary Chain and @Supergrass. Steve Queralt retired from music altogether.
If you're new to Ride and want to hear what they were like back in the day, it's probably best to ignore their last 2 albums and focus on their first 2: start with Vapour Trail and Seagull from their debut Nowhere, Leave Them All Behind and Twisterella from their 2nd album Going Blank Again, and then if you like what you hear dive into the albums themselves.
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