Vapour Trail (song)

This article is about the Ride song. For other songs with similar titles, see Vapor Trail (disambiguation).
"Vapour Trail"
Single by Ride
from the album Nowhere
B-side
  • "Unfamiliar"
  • "Sennen"
  • "Beneath"
ReleasedApril 1, 1991 (1991-04-01)
RecordedBlackwing Studios, London
(track 1)
Blackbarn Studios, Ripley
(tracks 2, 3, 4)
Genre
Length4:18
LabelSire
Virgin
Songwriter(s)Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt
Producer(s)Marc Waterman (track 1)
Matt Oliver (tracks 2, 3, 4)
Ride singles chronology
"Taste"
(1991) 		"Vapour Trail"
(1991) 		"Leave Them All Behind"
(1992)

"Vapour Trail" is a song by British shoegaze band Ride. It is the closing track of the band's debut album, Nowhere (1990), released on Creation Records, and was later released as a single in the United States in early 1991. Written by lead guitarist Andy Bell, the song features a distinctive swirling guitar riff, a strong, fill-based drum beat, and a coda that includes a string quartet.

The song is the band's most well known and later was voted number 145 on Pitchfork's "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s".[5]

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  2. ^ Schonfeld, Zach (14 June 2017). "31 Essential Shoegaze Tracks". Stereogum. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  3. ^ Embley, Jochan (22 June 2018). "The best shoegaze songs of all time". Evening Standard. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  4. ^ Bergstrom, John (3 April 2015). "Ride: OX4: The Best of Ride, PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  5. ^ "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 150-101". Pitchfork. 31 August 2010. p. 1. Retrieved 9 July 2021.