- alternative rock, rock
- 43 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
Gold Against the Soul is the second studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 21 June 1993 by Columbia Records. The follow-up to the band's 1992 debut album Generation Terrorists, the record reached No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart.
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Character
Spare, grave, character-led and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- Music Week4/5 ★
- NME6/10
- PopMatters7/10
- Q2/5 ★
- Record Collector4/5 ★
- Select4/5
- Uncut8/10
- Under the Radar9/10
- Vox6/10
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Tracks
- 1Sleepflower4:52
- 2From Despair to Where3:34
- 3La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)4:13
- 4Yourself4:11
- 5Life Becoming a Landslide4:16
- 6Drug Drug Druggy3:27
- 7Roses in the Hospital5:03
- 8Nostalgic Pushead4:15
- 9Symphony of Tourette3:32
- 10Gold Against the Soul5:35
10 tracks, 43 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Manic Street Preachers
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1993
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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