By Peter Doherty
South Shields up-and-comers Slate Label released their self-titled debut EP back in February. Five months on and we finally get the follow-up to said project. The Slate Label crew have been busy in times in between: spots at Roulette Festival and The Road to Hardwick competition – making it to the finals of said competiton in the process – have taken up most of the collectives time, but the return takes the form of “In It for the Ride”. Lead by Joseph Meston and his heavily Jeff Buckley-esque approach to vocals and laced with aphorisms of the easily forgotten everyday man – “read it on a bus stop sign, I need to live life like I’m young”, “read it on a pack of tabs that the good people die young” – “In It for the Ride” packs a reminder, or two, of time spent, meaning found, the importance of relationships and how these things keep the world in spin.
