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11 January 2025
Welsh heroes MANIC STREET PREACHERS have no intention whatsoever to retire.
They’ll have their 15th longplayer, baptized CRITICAL THINKING out on 31st Jan 2025.
Nicky Wire about the LP: “While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.”
“The music is energised and at times euphoric. Recording could sometimes be sporadic and isolated, at other times we played live in a band setting, again the opposites making sense with each other. There are crises at the heart of these songs. They are microcosms of skepticism and suspicion, the drive to the internal seems inevitable – start with yourself, maybe the rest will follow.”
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New single: PEOPLE RUIN PAINTINGS
It follows Hiding In Plain Sight and Decline & Fall.
It’s vintage manics’ melancholia with la tristesse durera
sentiments. Top vocals. Top tune.
“People ruin paintings, faces for the view /
People destroy the truth.”
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