Mark Gardener described it as a "nighttime sort of record", and recalled the band working on the album in the studio during late-night hours and long sessions.

For the 2001 CD re-release, the band name and title were printed visibly on the cover in the locations of the LP's embossed text.

The set also includes a 40-page booklet with exclusive photos and a new essay by music critic Jim DeRogatis, as well as a lenticular-covered digipak book.

[8][9] In November 2015, the band released a special 25th anniversary edition of Nowhere across two separate formats: a CD/DVD set, and a coloured-vinyl double LP.

Noting the "huge burden of expectation" placed on Ride's first full-length album after three acclaimed EPs, Select critic Andrew Perry deemed Nowhere a "phenomenal" debut and praised the band's "heaven-sent melodic gift" and avoidance of "formularisation".

[18] Record Mirror's Chris Sharratt called Ride "undoubtedly the present day kings of the indie guitar empire" and found that the album justified the "media hype" around the band.

[12] David Bevan of Pitchfork described Nowhere as one of shoegaze's "indisputable masterpieces",[2] and Andy Kellman of AllMusic said that the album exemplified the genre at its "most exciting and mastered", while also being "Ride's zenith".

[24] All songs were equally credited to Ride (Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardener, Steve Queralt).