Bleep

Legendary Oxford shoegaze progenitors Ride continue their recent reissue campaign with Wichita Recordings, wrapping things up with the final two LPs of their initial run. The second of these new editions to get the remaster treatment is 1996’s Tarantula. Although issued at time of great acrimony for the group, Tarantula boasts some of the band’s best later period songs as they continued further from their noise-blasted beginnings, including the howling retro rocker ‘Black Nite Crash’ and the Britpop inflected shuffler ‘Walk on Water’. This reissue also tacks on 3 of-the-era bonus tracks, which accounts for the band’s final efforts set to tape in their first era.