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30 August 2024

Press

Welsh heroes MANIC STREET PREACHERS have been around for about
40 years and released 14 LPs (so far), with The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021)
as the most recent one.

As a lifetime Preachers fan I am always looking out for new music,
although their last great album was the 2014 stellar one Futurology.

So, here’s brand-new single DECLINE & FALL. Poppy, swirling and bustling.
Synths and guitars join forces and James Dean Bradfield‘s vocals are, as usual,
afire. The track could easily have been on one of their latest albums. Affecting
and sticky, but not a world hit.

“Musically with ‘Decline & Fall’ we tried to create forward motion – a song which
harnesses the past to propel it into the future – the lyric is one of realisation and
understanding – of celebrating the tiny miracles that still exist whilst accepting
and embracing managed decline.”

[Verse]
Into the impossible heart of the sun
Might be a place where I could belong
Society used to be my worst enemy
Now I want to build a small one for you and me

[Chorus]
The decline and fall
Divide and dissolve
The dry stone walls
A beauty that calls

The decline and fall
A beauty that calls

[Verse]
I know our time has come and gone
At least we blazed a trail and shone
These tiny molecules governed by rules
Littlе atoms that only leave clues

[Chorus]
Thе decline and fall
Divide and dissolve
The dry stone walls
A beauty that calls

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