Ride - Clouds In The Mirror

Clouds In The Mirror (This Is Not A Safe Place Reimagined By Pêtr Aleksänder) is a remix album by English rock band Ride and Pêtr Aleksänder, released in May 2020 via Wichita Recordings.

Ride are an English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other projects, most notably Bell who became the bassist for Oasis. In 2001, the band briefly reunited for a one-off performance for a television show. Ride announced their second reunion in November 2014. Their debut album Nowhere (1990) has been named one of the important albums of the shoegazing genre.

Ride handed the entirety of their highly acclaimed sixth studio album, This Is Not A Safe Place (2019), to mysterious London act Pêtr Aleksänder, who stripped the songs back to just the vocals and added their customarily beautiful string arrangements, keys and synth textures beneath them.

The results take Ride deep into the neo-classical / ambient territory that a couple of the remixes of their previous album hinted at and will appeal to fans of those musical styles, as well as those who consider themselves a part of the band’s die-hard fanbase.

This album is on black vinyl with a printed insert and download code, pressed in the US via Wichita Recordings.