Ride the Fader is the second and final studio album by American indie rock band Chavez.

[2][3][4][5] It was released on Matador Records on November 5, 1996.

[6] The album is considered by most fans and critics to be the band's best work.

Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996 (2014), 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.

"[14] Entertainment Weekly praised the album as "a fine specimen of spare, brainy post-metal hard rock."