Nowhere (album)
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| Studio album by Ride | ||||
| Released | 15 October 1990 | |||
| Studio | Blackwing Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 39:00 | |||
| Label | Creation | |||
| Producer | Marc Waterman | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A |
| Chicago Tribune |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Mojo | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 9.5/10 |
| Q | |
| Select | 5/5 |
| Uncut | 8/10 |
Nowhere is the debut album by British rock band Ride, released 15 October 1990. Rolling Stone called the album "a masterpiece", and online magazine Pitchfork called it "one of the genre's [shoegazing] enduring moments".
Ride released three EPs, Ride, Play, and Fall, prior to the release of Nowhere.Nowhere was recorded live-in-the-studio with producer Marc Waterman. Waterman had a mental breakdown, which resulted in Alan Moulder mixing the recordings.
The album cover features an uncrested wave photographed by Warren Bolster. The original LP cover artwork had the band name in embossed text centered in the upper half and an embossed album title in the lower right corner. The original cassette and CD releases featured no band name or album title on the cover, but sometimes came with an identifying sticker on the outside of the CD or cassette case. For the 2001 CD re-release, the band name and title were printed visibly on the cover in the locations of the LP's embossed text. The 2011 Rhino Handmade edition features a lenticular design of the wave.
Nowhere was released by Creation Records on 15 October 1990. The album was issued in the United States in December 1990 by Sire Records, featuring three bonus tracks culled from the band's Fall EP. A 2001 reissue by Ignition Records further added the four songs from the band's Today Forever EP as bonus tracks. In February 2011, Rhino Handmade released a special 20th anniversary edition of Nowhere, featuring the remastered original album with seven bonus tracks, plus a bonus disc featuring a previously unreleased live performance at The Roxy in Los Angeles recorded on 10 April 1991. The set also includes a 40-page booklet with exclusive photos and a new essay by music critic Jim DeRogatis, as well as a lenticular-covered digipak book. In conjunction with the re-release, the band performed the album in its entirety at a series of live shows in October 2015. In November 2015, the band released a special 25th anniversary edition of "Nowhere", with same material of CD like 2001 and 2011 remastered, and different change of DVD and LP material, a DVD featuring a previously unreleased live performance at Town and Country Club in London 7 March 1991 alongside a hardback cardboard case with canvas-style cover and a 36-page booklet. The LP was expanded with 7 bonus tracks from Fall EP and Today Forever EP. This reissue also comes with limited LP, with white and blue marbled colour. The reissue was released independently.
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