| Pale Saints / In Ribbons |
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| Album: | In Ribbons | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Pale Saints | Added: | Jan 1994 | |
| Label: | 4AD | |||
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 12, 2015: | radio seven Ordeal | 4. | Jan 14, 2010: | The Machine Stops Shell | |
| 2. | Jan 30, 2011: | YOUTH DEMOGRAPHIC RADIO (TM) Hunted | 5. | Mar 02, 2007: | college radio Ordeal | |
| 3. | Jun 26, 2010: | lost and found Hair Shoes | 6. | Oct 12, 2005: | Epic Soundtracks Throwing Back the Apple |
| Album Review |
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| David McWade Reviewed 2007-09-25 | ||
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Etherial, mid-period 4AD music, in many ways a bridge between the dissonant dark rock of the earlier era with the more indie pop, shoegazing, and singer/songwriting of the later stuff. Pale Saints have three full length albums and this is the second, and probably the best. It's more 'mature' than the first one, sure, but it's also more interesting. 1992 release. Best: 4, 6, 8, 12. Also try: 1, 2, 3, 10. Track by track is somewhat difficult and not entirely necessary. I'll list some highlights: 1 use of wall guitar 3 this could have been a big hit, although perhaps in an earlier era 4 so lovely indie pop dirge, perfect 'song', use of strings, ballad 6 plodding, long (6+ minutes) and drawn out, sort of semi-goth, militaristic drums at end, fades 8 this one is so And Also The Trees (eg 'Anchor Yard'), and so successfully done 10 coin a sensibility 12 very pretty pop song, soaring | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Throwing Back the Apple | 7. | Blue Flower | |||
| 2. | Ordeal | 8. | Hair Shoes | |||
| 3. | Thread of Light | 9. | Baby Maker | |||
| 4. | Shell | 10. | Liquid | |||
| 5. | There Is no Day | 11. | Neverending Night | |||
| 6. | Hunted | 12. | Featherframe | |||
| 13. | Thousand Stars Burst Open | |||||