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<\/a><\/p>\nThough it\u2019s been almost 23 years to the date of the first and\u2014prior to last week\u2019s reunion show\u2014only time that I saw Ride live and in the flesh, that show at the sadly long gong Academy concert hall still reverberates in my memory like the everlasting effect of being bombarded by their shoegaze-glazed wall of sound. Ride was the<\/i> soundtrack to my first couple years of college and that live appearance still sticks out amongst the hundreds of shows I\u2019ve seen since. As such, their appearance in Brooklyn last week\u2014their first gig in the Big Apple since the one I saw so many years ago\u2014was no doubt tinged by a certain amount of nostalgia, but the Oxford four-piece quickly reveled that they had gathered no moss in the intervening years and that the songs from the handful of records they made in their heyday are still singularly superior to the contemporary dross that\u2019s been compared to their generation.<\/p>\n
Just as they did in 1992, Ride opened with \u201cLeave Them All Behind,\u201d the leadoff track from the band\u2019s second full-length, Going Blank Again<\/i>. But while the track\u2019s prodding bassline, cracking snare, and surging guitar lines were a suitable intro, it was with the subsequent blast of \u201cLike a Daydream,\u201d from their Play<\/i> EP, that the show began in earnest. That song\u2019s crushing tidal waves of guitars were truly riveting, and the cut\u2019s several pregnant pauses left one with the feeling of hanging in midair. \u201cPolar Bear,\u201d from Ride\u2019s magnum opus, Nowhere<\/i>, was just as spellbinding, but this time the swirl of guitars gave the feeling of levitation, an appropriate sensation given the track\u2019s celestial subject matter.<\/p>\n
As the set progressed through highlight after highlight, notably \u201cSeagull\u201d and \u201cCool Your Boots,\u201d the sheaths of distortion lifted only ever so slightly so that when they got to \u201cOX4,\u201d it\u2019s shimmery melody seemed like the rainbow at the end of a beautifully violent storm. In truth, it was the midway point of a set that could have extended into the wee hours of the morning if I had my druthers. \u201cParalysed,\u201d also seemed like a parting of the seas, but only in the context of its own tempest. Of course, perennial favorite \u201cVapour Trail\u201d stood out, but it was \u201cDrive Blind,\u201d during which all four members went on a noisy tangent before returning to the song proper to close the set without missing a beat, that was the grand finale. As you\u2019d suspect, they returned for an encore, and \u201cMouse Trap\u201d was a blissful spiraling of pop hooks and distortion. \u201cChelsea Girl,\u201d the leadoff track from their self-titled debut EP, appropriately finished the set as the band kicked it into overdrive one last time, their guitars still humming as they exited the stage. Too many years had passed since their last appearance for the show to ever be long enough (I would have liked to have heard something from the criminally overlooked Carnival of Light<\/i>), but I suspect this one will stick with me for some time to come as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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