Pale Saints
In Ribbons LP vinyl

The 1990 debut album from Pale Saints, The Comforts of Madness, is an outstanding record that owed as much to post-punk and L.A.’s Paisley Underground scene than it did to shoegaze. The Sunday Times called it “an unintended indie manifesto: music that is at once wayward and concise, dissonant and beautiful.”

Shortly after its release and in need of a second live guitarist, Lush founding member Meriel Barham joined the Leeds trio of Ian Masters, Graeme Naysmith and Chris Cooper, bringing a new dynamic to the band.

Having previously worked well with producer Hugh Jones (Echo and The Bunnyman, Modern English, The Sound), he did a brilliant job recording their second album, In Ribbons (1992), despite some studio tensions. Brooklyn Vegan said in a recent celebration of the album that it was the “push and pull between Masters’ outsider tendencies and (the rest’s) commercial intereststhat makes In Ribbons so good. If some of the wild, ragged edges of Comforts of Madness have been smoothed off, the album makes up for it with scope and beauty. And there’sstill no shortage of weird.” 

NEW / Released in 1992 / Reissue 2023

Tracklist:

A1 Throwing Back The Apple

A2 Ordeal

A3 Thread Of Light

A4 Shell

A5 There Is No Day

A6 Hunted

B7 Hair Shoes

B8 Babymaker

B9 Liquid

B10 Neverending Night

B11 Featherframe

B12 A Thousand Stars Burst Open