Let It Ride Vinyl

Packed with catchy melodies and memorable hooks, it captures the band039s confident and upbeat sound. This 180g vinyl reissue, the first time the album has been made available on LP since its initial release, replicates the original 1998 Polydor pressing.Originally issued on Polydor Records in June 1998, Let It Ride built on the enormous popularity of 1996039s A Maximun High, propelling the Yorkbased indie four piece back into the UK Top 10.Let It Ride is the view from the summit of Shed Seven039s first years of fame released nearly two years after A Maximum High, the album was trailed first by 34Chasing Rainbows34 in November 1996, a Top 20 UK hit and arguably their most celebrated anthem. It was the first of the album039s four singles the BritpopBaggy joy of 34She Left Me On Friday34 No 11 in March 1998 followed the armsintheair power balladry of 34The Heroes34 No 18, concluding with that August039s reflective 34Devil In Your Shoes34.Produced by Stephen Street, Chris Sheldon and Dave Leaper, Let It Ride was partially recorded in the legendary Olympic Studios in Barnes. It finds the group stretching out, using drum machines and string sections, with songs like the countryinfluenced 34A Hole34 and the almostmetal of opener 34Return34. 34There039s songs on this album that have the ability to become classic songs, like The Beatles, like The Stones,34 guitarist Paul Banks said at the time a bold claim, but then, listen to 34Chasing Rainbows34, and the melancholy closer 34Goodbye34 to understand where he was coming from.