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Gold Against the Soul saw the band experiment with styles including funk and grunge. [1] [2] 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. [3] Recording [ edit ]
a b Jovanovic, Rob (2010). A Version of Reason: The Search for Richey Edwards. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781409111290. Gold Against the Soul Deluxe Re-Issue". Manic Street Preachers. 11 March 2020 . Retrieved 27 June 2020. The sadness will last forever” Theo van Gogh. Letter to Elisabeth van Gogh. Written 5 August 1890 in Paris. Translated and edited by Robert Harrison.
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Murray, Robin; James, Gareth; Diver, Mike (23 August 2013). "7 of the Best: Manic Street Preachers". Clash . Retrieved 3 July 2020. Doyle, Tom (June 1996). "Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go". Q. EMAP. p.116. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001 . Retrieved 23 August 2020.Simon Price of The Telegraph opined that the lyrics on Gold Against the Soul "switched from the political [of Generation Terrorists] to the personal". [5] The lyrical content is considerably less political than their previous album Generation Terrorists, and the album is more reflective of the despair and melancholy of their later work. [3] Van Gogh was at odds everywhere—in the church, in the artistic scene in Paris, in the community of Arles, and also in Auvers-sur-Oise. In Auvers-sur-Oise, not everything was bad. He carried on a gentle romance with Gachet’s daughter, felt truly at home in Gustave’s Inn, and was so close to his brother Theo. Even if his attempt to belong was not always successful, there were moments of happiness for Vincent, moments of peace. Did his suicide arise not from impulse, but reason? Did he calmly decide to put an end to his life? Or was there a person with whom he was in conflict, even, perhaps, with his doctor Gachet, who envied his abilities and himself led a failed artist’s life? For people with affective disorders, it often doesn’t take a sharp trigger, a loud snap, to take the final step to the end. Even if Vincent did not shoot himself, it was his decision to surrender to death over the course of two days. “The sadness will last forever,” he confessed. 2 Posthumous psychiatric diagnoses surround Vincent like a cloud—or perhaps even a cloak of protection. In his own time, he was diagnosed with epilepsy, schizophrenia and substance abuse, topped with a hunch of borderline personality and bipolar disorder assigned long after his life had elapsed. Mania might have encouraged his urge to paint, but sadness and fear found their redemption in his warm colour studies. “[I]nstead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy,” Vincent wrote. 1 The band stated that the choice to work with Dave Eringa again was important for this album: "We finished work in November and then just went straight into a demo studio and we came out about four weeks later with the album all finished. We were all happy with all the songs, we knew what they wanted to sound like, so we didn't want to use a mainstream producer because they've got their own sound and vision of what a record should be like. So we just phoned Dave up and said 'Look, come down, let's see how this works out', and everyone loved what we were doing, so we decided to stay with him." [3] La Tristesse Durera" (literally "the sadness will go on") is the title of a biography of Vincent van Gogh, although the song is not about him but about a war veteran. [6] Style and influences [ edit ]