‘Critical Thinking’ – Manic Street Preachers eagerly awaited 15th album is released today having received fantastic reviews and amazing radio support. 4 tracks (‘Decline & Fall’, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, ‘People Ruin Paintings’ and ‘Brushstrokes of Reunion’) have previewed the release and given a taster for the new release.
’Critical Thinking’ shows that with the Manics, rage never sleeps” 9/10 Classic Rock
Manic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album and UK tour to accompany it. ‘Critical Thinking’ is released on 31st January 2025, and a new single featuring for the first time, lead vocals from bassist/lyricist Nicky Wire ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’ is available today. The band will perform this alongside massive radio hit ‘Decline & Fall’, the first track released from the forthcoming album, tomorrow evening on...
“Decline & Fall” is the first single of the upcoming fifteenth studio album by Manic Street Preachers. It comes on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the band’s seminal 1994 album ‘The Holy Bible’ and was recorded at the band’s Door to The River studio in Newport and at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth. The record was produced by longtime collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams, with mixing by Caesar...
‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.
‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’s eleven tracks perfectly marry introspection, quiet rage and sublime, irresistible tunes. Those elements are there throughout, from the opening ambient hum of ‘Snowing In...
The new single from The Manic Street Preachers once again accompanied by a beautiful video. “Resistance Is Futile” entered the UK album charts at #2. The band is playing an arena tour in the UK and will play an exclusive show at de Lokerse Feesten on 10 August 2018.
The single is taken from the band’s 13th studio album 'Resistance Is Futile' out on Columbia/Sony on 6th April 2017.
The single is unfiltered, classic Manic Street Preachers. Inspired by the city of Nice in the mid winter sun and the life’s work of French Nouveau realisme...
‘International Blue’ is the first new release from MANIC STREET PREACHERS in four years and is available from today (8th December 2017). It is taken from the band’s 13th studio album 'Resistance Is Futile' out on Columbia/Sony on 6th April 2017. The single is unfiltered, classic Manic Street Preachers. Inspired by the city of Nice in the mid winter sun and the life’s work of French Nouveau realisme artist Yves...
International Blue’ is the first new release from MANIC STREET PREACHERS in four years and is available from today (8th December 2017).
It is taken from the band’s 13th studio album 'Resistance Is Futile' out on Columbia/Sony on 6th April 2017.
The single is unfiltered, classic Manic Street Preachers. Inspired by the city of Nice in the mid winter sun and the life’s work of French Nouveau realisme artist Yves...
Following the announcement at the end of 2015 for seven shows celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the MANIC STREET PREACHERS fourth album ‘Everything Must Go’, the band have now confirmed there will be a very special reissue box set of the album which will feature vinyl, CD’s, DVD’s and a book. The band’s 21 song performance at the Nynex Arena in Manchester to over 20,000 people on 24th May 1997...
"Futurology" is the title track off Manic Street Preachers’ 12 studio album, released last July.
The songs on ‘Futurology’ were inspired by travelling through Europe, the pioneering artistic spirit of early 20th Century modernist art and the maverick music of Krautrock and New Pop. Nicky Wire says: “During our last European tour we really reconnected with this idea of travelling on the Autobahns listening to records by Kraftwerk, Neu!, Andy...
