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| 4.5 superb | FLRTE | January 17th 11 |
Pale Saints is the forgotten band of the shoegaze genre, and this is their best album. They use subtle arrangements and elusive melodies that gets you on a trip, floating, like only shoegaze can do. But what I really like with this band is that they never fall into a kind of "shoegaze cliche" of silly dreampop songs. Ian Masters' voice is angelic and unique, following weird melodies and unpredictable changes. The overall effect is often on the edge between the comfort of the unreal and the harshness of reality. There is 3 songs with the female voice of another Shoegaze band: Lush, but the best tracks are definitly those with Masters leading the ship to unknown places, especially: "Shell", "Hunted", "Hair Shoes" and "Neverending Night", all these song are among the best in Shoegaze history, as well as the album.
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| 4.0 excellent | FoodBankGetsMoney | May 29th 12 |
The Pale Saints are often forgotten about when discussing shoegaze in early 90s Britain, often sidelined for discussion about Ride, Slowdive, and those Irish guys that were on that Bill Murray movie, they made the album with the pretty pink guitar cover. Hell, freaking Chapterhouse gets more discussion than them (and I like Chapterhouse). But The Pale Saints don't deserve to be a footnote when discussing the great genre of gazing. They leaned more towards the dream pop side of the shoegaze spectrum, the swirly, dreamy, flangey, Cocteau-y, fluffy, poppy side. This album is filled with dreamy soundscapes and well crafted pop songs, the vocals aren't buried in the mix like a lot of shoegaze, they're actually kind of clear on a lot of tracks. Lead guitar riffs are prominent here, a rarity in the genre. Fine tunes, check it out if you like Lush or anything of that sort.
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| 3.5 great | platttt | December 11th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | December 5th 23 |
| 4.5 superb | Timmy | February 10th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Source | June 18th 22 |
| 3.0 good | qt | April 10th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sunnyvale STAFF | February 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | spur55 | October 8th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Arlind | September 17th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | August 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | mallen- | February 1st 20 |
| 4.5 superb | crab | December 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | doofy | September 18th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Ryus | August 18th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Macck | April 3rd 18 |
| 3.0 good | YayoG1 | September 3rd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | July 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | January 6th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Denis | August 7th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | akimbo | April 30th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | March 6th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ctams | November 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Caleb S. | December 29th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | November 19th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Glider | October 21st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Solisis | September 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | KILL | August 5th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Polvo | April 15th 12 |
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