"...Despite their tender age, it was clear these guys had an acute sense of balance between good and evil, beauty/tunes and destruction noise. That balance shifted towards the macabre on the second track, 'Drive Blind', which at one point broke apart into a holocaust of feedback which, onstage, they'd often prolong for several eye-popping minutes. Again, though, through the darkness, the song was all ambition. Ride were at the wheel, window down, shades on, screeching gleefully toward the vanishing point of a new horizon, and who knew what was waiting beyond..."