Going Blank Again by Ride

Going Blank Again, Ride's second album, came out on Creation on 9 March 1992, two years after Nowhere had made the Oxford four-piece standard-bearers of shoegaze. Alan Moulder produced it, and the band sound hungrier and more widescreen: Andy Bell and Mark Gardener's guitars and voices swirl into one glowing smear, while Loz Colbert and Steve Queralt keep the engine roaring underneath.

"Leave Them All Behind" was the lead single, a hypnotic surge that became the band's biggest hit, reaching number nine on the UK singles chart. The album itself got to number five, went gold in 2009, and has since been hailed alongside Nowhere as one of the finest shoegaze records ever made. Carnival of Light followed in 1994.

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