Ride were formed in Oxford in 1988 by four friends rooted in
art-school aesthetics who combined 60s guitar-pop sensibilities
with avalanches of noise and driving rhythms. It was a
recalibration of indie-rock that would come to be defined as
shoegazing, music that was both experimental and pop,
powerful and fragile. Preceded by a run of three critically-
acclaimed EPs, their 1990 debut album Nowhere is regarded
as one of the greatest debuts of the ‘90s.
Ride were formed in Oxford in 1988 by four friends rooted in
art-school aesthetics who combined 60s guitar-pop sensibilities
with avalanches of noise and driving rhythms. It was a
recalibration of indie-rock that would come to be defined as
shoegazing, music that was both experimental and pop,
powerful and fragile. Preceded by a run of three critically-
acclaimed EPs, their 1990 debut album Nowhere is regarded
as one of the greatest debuts of the ‘90s.