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- Summary: The sixth full-length studio release for the British shoegaze band was produced by Erol Alkan and mixed by Alan Moulder with Caesar Edmunds.
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- Record Label: Wichita
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Shoegaze
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Positive: 10 out of 17
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Mixed: 7 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Aug 21, 2019Here Ride aren’t just treading water so much as striking out for the horizon.
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Q MagazineAug 8, 2019It might well be their best album yet. [Sep 2019, p.116]
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Aug 16, 2019The album is most interesting when it eschews from the guidelines.
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Aug 16, 2019Not every experiment on This Is Not a Safe Place succeeds, but that’s okay; failures still signify work in progress, and we can all agree that a world in which Ride’s at work is always preferable to the alternative.
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Sep 4, 2019Sadly, the difference here in 2019 is that reaching the end of This Is Not a Safe Place—listening to the whole album—is not as rewarding as it needed to be.
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Aug 16, 2019Mixed results notwithstanding, This Is Not a Safe Place is further proof that these four musicians belong beside one another. They won't make the long-list for the Patrick Fitzgerald Shoegaze Poet Award, but they still create quite a sighing racket.
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Aug 21, 2019Their newer, glossier pop sheen pedestals them as the makers of proficiently written and intently catchy tunes that are inoffensive and innocuous - and never adventurous enough not to be.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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Aug 16, 2019
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Aug 24, 2019
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Aug 17, 2019Great new album! Risks were taken, it’s creative and inventive, it reminds you of why we love Ride.
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Aug 16, 2019
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