A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
Ride's first few releases were pretty solid first-wave shoegaze, some post-Stone Roses Britpop set ablaze with a wall of distortion. But for their second full-length, 1992's Going Blank Again, they polished their sound, with some cleaner pop flourishes amidst the buzz, the pretty jangle given some more breathing room. Which doesn't mean they completely mellowed out. The opening track, "Leave Them All Behind," is an extended dancehall noise jam, a parallel of sorts to My Bloody Valentine's like-minded "Soon" from the prior year's Loveless.
It kicks off in Happy Mondays territory, a casual groove, but then the guitars roll in, layers of psychedelic swirl. It's more of a mood-piece than the more concise song-oriented tracks filling out the album, the vocals not even starting in until well after the two minute mark, and when they do, they're multi-layered and hypnotic, tripped-out demands to head off to... somewhere.
Single version:Live in the studio 2017:Live 1992:Cover by Stella Diana:
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