Pale Saints, the ’80s dream-pop and shoegaze band from Leeds, have announced a 30th anniversary reissue of In Ribbons, their sophomore album originally released in 1992. The expanded reissue will arrive on October 6 via 4AD. Listen to the previously unavailable “Kinky Love (Demo),” Ian Masters’ rare four-track recording of the group’s Nancy Sinatra cover, below.
In Ribbons (30th Anniversary Reissue) is a special double LP release, with the first disc featuring a new remaster of the UK version of the album and the second disc featuring never-before-heard demos. The latter includes Pale Saints’ first attempt at Slapp Happy’s “Blue Flower,” as well as two brass band versions of songs by the Tintwistle Band, previously only heard on a bonus 7" that arrived with the initial UK vinyl pressing. The complete digital tracklist can be found below.
According to a press release, the new expanded reissue of In Ribbons was originally scheduled to arrive last year for the proper 30th anniversary, but pandemic-related delays and production plant backup pushed its release to 2023.
Back in 2020, Pale Saints’ debut, The Comforts of Madness, got reissued. Read about the album at No. 21 in Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time.”
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In Ribbons (30th Anniversary Reissue):
01 Throwing Back the Apple (2023 Remaster)
02 Ordeal (2023 Remaster)
03 Thread of Light (2023 Remaster)
04 Shell (2023 Remaster)
05 There Is No Day (2023 Remaster)
06 Hunted (2023 Remaster)
07 Hair Shoes (2023 Remaster)
08 Babymaker (2023 Remaster)
09 Liquid (2023 Remaster)
10 Neverending Night (2023 Remaster)
11 Featherframe (2023 Remaster)
12 A Thousand Stars Burst Open (2023 Remaster)
01 Babymaker (Demo)
02 Kinky Love (Demo)
03 Hair Shoes (Demo)
04 Shell (Demo)
05 Hunted (Demo)
06 Featherframe (Demo)
07 Blue Flower (Demo)
08 Throwing Back the Apple (Demo)
09 Ordeal (Demo)
10 Untitled Instrumental (Demo)
11 A Thousand Stars Burst Open (Tintwistle Brass Band Version)
12 A Revelation (Tintwistle Brass Band Version)
