Gold Against the Soul

Gold Against the Soul
Studio album by
Manic Street Preachers
Released21 June 1993
RecordedJanuary–March 1993
StudioOutside Studios, Checkendon, England
Genre
Length42:51
LabelColumbia
ProducerDave Eringa
Manic Street Preachers chronology
Generation Terrorists
(1992) 		Gold Against the Soul
(1993) 		The Holy Bible
(1994)
Singles from Gold Against the Soul
  1. "From Despair to Where"
    Released: 7 June 1993
  2. "La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)"
    Released: 26 July 1993
  3. "Roses in the Hospital"
    Released: 20 September 1993
  4. "Life Becoming a Landslide"
    Released: 7 February 1994

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.

Gold Against the Soul takes to an extreme the hard rock sound of its predecessor and saw the band experiment with styles including funk and the then-contemporary grunge.[1][2][3] The album's lyrical themes owed little to the political and social commentaries of its predecessor, and instead explored more personal themes of depression, melancholy and nostalgia.[4]

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