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With regards to music we see a million stars rise and fall propelled by a industry-driven music press every year.

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One moment one band is your sole listening, only to be replaced within a week or two in your Walkman, car stereo, or bedroom hi-fi by another. The Pale Saints are a four piece band hailing from Leeds. Just what happens when you lose a central band member? First, a little history. This EP featured the wonderfully emotive Sight Of You track and became critically acclaimed in the fickle British music press.

This was followed early in by their debut album The Comforts Of Madness.

Meriel Barham ( – ) Pale Saints were a British alternative rock band formed by Ian Masters (bass/vocals), Graeme Naysmith (guitar), and Chris Cooper (drums).

Late in the Half Life EP was released, featuring for the first time, Meriel Barham on supporting vocals and guitar. Still darlings of the music press, this EP had a softer, more atmospheric sound to the brash pop of their earlier releases. All fell silent — until mid when the Flesh Balloon EP was released. Highly acclaimed in Britain, America and even here in Australia, it firmly placed the Pale Saints in a league of their own merging the cello-based sound of Shell with the shimmering pop of A Thousand Stars Burst Open.

Listening to Slow Buildings it is very difficult to tell that anything has changed since In Ribbons except for the solely female vocals. The glistening sound of Gesture Of A Fear, Fine Friend and other tracks would not be out of place on earlier releases. I was very surprised, then, to find, when I read their record company bio, that Ian Masters had left the band.

He was going off in a different direction from the rest of the band. The sound of the new lineup differs little from that of the original, something Meriel puts down to the way the band worked with Ian. It was never Ian and a backing band.