Tarantula (Ride album)

Tarantula
Studio album by
Ride
Released11 March 1996 (1996-03-11)
RecordedLondon, 1995
GenreAlternative rock, Britpop[1]
Length50:17
LabelCreation
Producer
  • Richard "Digby" Smith
  • Paul Motion
Ride chronology
Carnival of Light
(1994) 		Tarantula
(1996) 		OX4 The Best of Ride
(2001)
Singles from Tarantula
  1. "Black Nite Crash"
    Released: 12 February 1996

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork Media(5.4/10)[3]
NME(6/10)[4]
Melody Maker(negative)[5]
Select[6]
Vox(5/10)[7]

Tarantula is the fourth studio album by British rock band Ride, released in March 1996 shortly after the band split. The album was deleted from Creation Records' catalogue only one week after its release.[8]

This is also the only Ride album on which Andy Bell's vocal duties outweigh those of regular frontman Mark Gardener, due to internal conflict and the prior of their breakup.

  1. ^ Corr, Alan (22 June 2017). "Ya big Ride! '90s band deliver killer new album". RTÉ.ie.
  2. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r232862
  3. ^ "Ride: Tarantula: Pitchfork Review". 5 October 2002. Archived from the original on 5 October 2002.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "For Whom the Bell Toils". NME. 2 March 1996.
  5. ^ "Eight-legged snooze machine". Melody Maker. 16 March 1996.
  6. ^ "Ride, Tarantula". Select. April 1996.
  7. ^ "Uneasy riders". Vox. April 1996.
  8. ^ "Gig preview: Ride at O2 Academy Leeds".