Ride the Fader

by Chavez

Ride the Fader cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 November 1996
  • Label: Matador
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:14
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Bryce Goggin, John Agnello

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The New York quartet perfected their highly angular, mathematically complex guitar rock on their sophomore, and ultimately final, studio album. The incredibly dense, labyrinthine guitar interplay between Matt Sweeney and Clay Tarver demands intense listener attention, masking deeply melancholic melodies beneath a wall of post-hardcore dissonance. It remains a critically revered touchstone for intellectually rigorous, 1990s guitar-centric indie rock.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, abrasive, complex, syncopated, guitar-driven, technical, rhythmic, melodic, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Top Pocket Man (2:58)
  2. The Guard Attacks (2:58)
  3. Unreal Is Here (2:32)
  4. New Room (3:11)
  5. Tight Around The Jaws (3:22)
  6. Lions (2:40)
  7. Our Boys Will Shine Tonight (3:29)
  8. Memorize This Face (1:45)
  9. Cold Joys (2:37)
  10. Flight '96 (5:30)
  11. Ever Overpsyched (2:29)
  12. You Must Be Stopped (4:43)

Credits

  • Chavez - primary artist
  • John Kelsey - artwork
  • Mark Ohe - artwork
  • Clay Tarver - performer
  • Matt Sweeney - performer
  • Scott Anthony Masciarelli - performer

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