The Ride [LP]

by Catfish and the Bottlemen

Overview

For Catfish and the Bottlemen, growth is measured along the scale of refinement, not ambition. The Ride, the 2016 sophomore set that follows their debut, The Balcony, by two years, finds the band still pledging allegiance to the rock & roll of Y2K, but their increased assurance underscores their debt not to the Arctic Monkeys but the Strokes. Honing the hooks and beefing up the production wind up whittling away whatever British eccentricities that were lingering on The Balcony, but where Alex Turner's crew followed Josh Homme down a desert rabbithole, this crew values precision. Usually, this means The Ride can pack a punch even when the guitars aren't cranked to the max: the open space of "Soundcheck" and the ringing jangle of "Postpone" sink their hooks in a way the faster, cloistered stuff doesn't. Then again, when The Ride does get loud it rarely feels raucous. Catfish and the Bottlemen hit their marks, rushing through their melodies but never taking it so quick that the singsong tunes don't stick, slowing down the tempo for needed breathers and ending the whole shebang with "Outside," an extended number designed to ratchet up expectations prior to the encore. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/27/2016
Label:	Capitol
UPC:	0602547863713
Rank:	23177

Tracks

1. 7
2. Twice
3. Soundcheck
4. Postpone
5. Anything
6. Glasgow
7. Oxygen
8. Emily
9. Red
10. Heathrow
11. Outside

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Catfish and the Bottlemen   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Dave Sardy   Producer
Cameron Barton   Engineer
Jim Monti   Engineer
Geoff Neal   Engineer
Dale Norton   Composer
Catfish and the Bottlemen   Composer
Benji Blakeway   Group Member
Van McCann   Composer,Group Member
Tim Lahan   Artwork
Johnny "Bondy" Bond   Group Member
Bob Hall   Group Member
Dale "Oxygen" Norton   Composer
Jordan Curtis Hughes   Photography