Ride - Carnival of LightFollowing their Nowhere 30th anniversary UK tour last year, shoegaze legends Ride reissue two more titles of their early classic albums Tarantula and Carnival of Light via Wichita Recordings. These follow last years reissues of Nowhere, 4EPs, and Going Blank Again from their days on Creation Records. All the original audio has been reworked and refined. One of the leading lights of the early 90s shoegaze scene, Ride reformed in 2014, releasing their

this release is the first in our ongoing series

the iconic Manchester band’s landmark debut album

Malcolm Semper Malcolm”) plus unique takes on Antonio Carlos Jobim (“The Girl From Ipanema”) and Duke Ellington (“Prelude To A Kiss”)

drummer Karl Burns and bass player Steve Hanley (whose playing was once described by Smith as the defining element of the group's music)

‘Alien Lanes’ served as the first Guided By Voices album to be released on Matador Records

On the minus side

After somehow securing Monk’s services to perform on Sunday

In May 1968 when he recorded his album Caramba

a moment of reflection

They would record one or two songs over a couple of days then pause for the week

once heavily-bearded and mistakenly suspected by London police to be a terrorist (while taking a break from press interviews in Hyde Park)

But on its third album