Ride the Fader is the second and last studio album by American indie rock band Chavez.[3][4] It was released on Matador Records on November 5, 1996.[5] The album is considered by most fans and critics to be the band's best work.
Critical reception
Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "Chavez's second album in a gigantic wall of all-encompassing guitar wizardry (riffs, leads, and everything else) constructed over a massive rhythm section and majestic vocals."[6]Entertainment Weekly praised the album as "a fine specimen of spare, brainy post-metal hard rock."