The Pale Saints’ second full album was their transitional effort, being both the last one that Ian Masters appeared on and the first that Meriel Barham did in turn, following her work on some earlier EPs. But more than that, 1992’s In Ribbons was their pinnacle, their shoegaze-adjacent approach of the past now feeling like their own elegant form of art-pop which was defiantly out of place from numerous current trends. “Throwing Back the Apple” made for a stirring start, while the sweetly melancholic “A Thousand Stars Burst Open” ended it with gentle power.