"This came out a month after Ride formed. They were such an important band for us. In fact, I’ve just checked and we formed in between the release of the two EP’s You Made Me Realise and Feed Me With Your Kiss, which were both massively influential on Ride. But the album was a step forward even from the EPs. It had a sound all of its own. The touch was lighter, more hip-hop influenced, the arrangements were less like jams and more like studio constructions, the songs were short and concise; there’s just so much going on with this album that shows how they were grasping the moment that they were having as a band. In particular, Colm O Ciosoig really stands out as being really important to the album. His drumming throughout is incredible, and his song, ‘(When You Wake) You’re Still in a Dream,’ is my favorite song on the record."

"It was the mid-'80s, I was in my early teens and Simon & Garfunkel came into play. A lot of the acoustic side to my playing comes from Paul Simon. He’s one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived and he’s done so many seminal guitar parts that I just fucking worship! “I first heard them very early in life because my parents had three Beatles records and Bridge over Troubled Water, but that’s not so much a guitar album. The album that changed my life as a guitar player was Sounds Of Silence, and it sort of opened the door into folk and folk-rock and then Bob Dylan. “Anji, the Davy Graham cover, is one of the first tunes I learned to play on acoustic, and it’s an amazing tune. I challenged myself to learn it and got my head round it. That whole album is full of really, really cool guitar playing"