{"product_id":"pale-saints-in-ribbons","title":"Pale Saints - In Ribbons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1990 debut album from Pale Saints,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Comforts of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShortly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving previously worked well with producer Hugh Jones (Echo and The Bunnyman, Modern English, The Sound), he did a brilliant job recording their second album,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Ribbons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Ribbons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eso good. If some of the wild, ragged edges of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eComforts of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehave been smoothed off, the album makes up for it with scope and beauty. And there’sstill no shortage of weird.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMissing its original release date last year due to Covid delays and a production plant in meltdown,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Ribbons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efinally gets the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves with a special double LP \/ CD release – the first disc being the UK version of the album, the second a bonus disc of never before heard demos (including their first attempt at Slapp Happy’s ‘Blue Flower’ and Ian’s 4 track recording of ‘Kinky Love’) and two brass band versions by The Tintwistle Band. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComing in a beautiful gatefold sleeve, the limited double LP edition is being pressed on unpigmented vinyl by The Vinyl Factory in West London. A single disc, black vinyl version is also released.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cargo Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black Vinyl","offer_id":51687153107256,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/4AD0407-PALESAINTS-INRIBBONS-PACKSHOT_10fb6e76_thumbnail_4096.webp?v=1770059059","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/pale-saints-in-ribbons","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}