RIDE

Timing is everything. Seminal early ’90s U.K. group Ride broke up prior to the release of its—at the time—final album, 1996’s Tarantula . Much was made of this split, marking it as acrimonious, when in reality it only lasted a few weeks with the members returning to each other quickly, albeit as friends, not band mates. The disbandment of the shoegazing pioneers was the result of too much: too much living in each other’s pockets, too much independence away from their families, too much fame, too much success, too much excess; all far too soon at too young of an age. Months shy of the release