Most of the songs sound half-realized, sketches of what could only amount to decent material with the necessary retooling and enthusiasm. Be warned: There's even a song detailing the myriad woes of life on the road. Gardener checks in with one lone song, the mediocre "Deep Inside My Pocket." And as Ride never had great lyricists, the words are just plain awful throughout, not even worth printing.
Those are the bright spots, albeit relatively speaking. Though "Black Nite Crash" and "Dead Man" are sub-Stones, sub-Faces and, well, sub-Ride, they're not half bad. Festering tension between Mark Gardener and Andy Bell came to a head, with Gardener walking out during the mixing process just before the record was released in March of 1996, the band announced its breakup. Not helping the matter was a lack of ideas - and a producer - before entering the studio. The band even subbed for Oasis openers the Verve during one of the band's tours, before the recording of Tarantula, signifying a changing of the guard. Perhaps falling out of favor with the British press, only to be stomped upon by the likes of the Oasis phenomenon, nailed the coffin shut. No focus, no spirit, almost no quality songs - Smaller Faces. Where Carnival of Light was a decent appropriation of late-'60s influences, here it's mere mimicry, going through the motions.
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Here's where the plot got lost, an abomination of '70s/Lenny Kravitz clichés, full of third- and fourth-rate tunes and, ultimately, bad blood.
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