Andy Bell live with Ride in London. July 2017. (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
Ride are keeping the new material flowing and have unveiled a track entitled Pulsar.
Like this year’s Weather Diaries album, it was produced by DJ Erol Alkan and, according to drummer Loz Colbert when speaking to Pitchfork, ‘reimagines old organ samples, transmissions from space, effects, heavy beats and pulsing chords’.
On Weather Diaries ‘Ride have proven they’re still lightning in a bottle’, we said in our review:
“An angry statement on chaotic times, this newly found skill for polemicising continues on Charm Assault, the lyrics a condemnation of Harridan politicians and their ethic-free circus, the music a churning pedal fest that bridges the gap between Tarantula’s trad-rock and the Smiths-inspired riffola of their vintage EPs.”
“For a collection of songs which begin in shimmering rebirth, Weather Diaries closes in the plaintive reflectiveness of White Sands, in substance little more than a few picked chords.”
