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Manic Street Preachers have announced that the trio’s 15th studio album will be released on 31st January, 2025. Titled Critical Thinking, it was recorded at the band’s Door To The River Studio in Newport and Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, the sessions produced by the group themselves alongside long-running collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams. The news has been accompanied with the release of a new single, Hiding In Plain Sight, a song that marks a Manics first – a lead single with the vocal sung by bassist Nicky Wire.
Talking about Critical Thinking, Wire said, “This is a record of opposites colliding – of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. 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 (lead vocalist and guitarist James Dean Bradfield) 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.”
The three-piece have also announced a UK tour throughout April and May 2025, all of the dates taking place on a Friday and Saturday. The dates are:
APR 11: Glasgow Barrowland
APR 12: Glasgow Barrowland
APR 18: London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
APR 19: London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
APR 25: Wolverhampton The Civic at the Halls
APR 26: Bristol Beacon
MAY 02: Manchester O2 Apollo
MAY 03: Manchester O2 Apollo
MAY 09: Swansea Arena
SAT 10: Swansea Arena
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- Manic Street Preachers - Theme From M.A.S.H. - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $19.05, €18.00 (New Item) (arrived 30-Oct-2024 18:00)on November 21, 2024 at 9:50 am
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Theme From M.A.S.H. (1992 UK limited edition 7" vinyl single, also including The Fatima Mansions' cover version of Everything I Do [I Do It For You], picture sleeve)
- Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul - GOLD CD - UK - CD album - £24.99, $31.74, €29.99 (New Item) (arrived 01-Oct-2024 13:54)on November 21, 2024 at 9:50 am
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Gold Against The Soul (Scarce 1993 UK limited edition GOLD 10-track CD album, includes La Tristesse Durera and Roses In The Hospital, numbered picture sleeve with hype stickers 4740649)
- Manic Street Preachers - The Ultra Vivid Lament - 180 Gram Vinyl + Shrink - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $31.74, €29.99 (New Item) (arrived 03-Jul-2024 11:03)on November 21, 2024 at 9:50 am
MANIC STREET PREACHERS The Ultra Vivid Lament (2021 UK/EU limited edition 11-track LP pressed on 180-gram Heavyweight Vinyl, their fourteenth studio album 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, including the singles 'Orwellian' and 'The Secret He Had Missed'. The vinyl shows light signs of play issued in the picture sleeve which retains its opened shrinkwrap and comes with the lyric printed inner)
- Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life - RSD16 - UK - 12" vinyl - £19.99, $25.39, €23.99 (New Item) (arrived 03-Jul-2024 11:11)on November 21, 2024 at 9:50 am
MANIC STREET PREACHERS A Design For Life (2016 UK limited edition 4-track 12" vinyl EP released exclusively for Record Store Day, including the Original Version and the Stealth Sonic Orchestra Remix plus 'Dead Trees And Traffic Islands'and 'Mr. Carbohydrate'. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl appears barely played)
- Manic Street Preachers - Signed Walkerprint - Autographed including Richey - UK - photograph - £495.00, $628.65, €594.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 12-Jul-2024 09:36)on November 21, 2024 at 9:50 am
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Signed Walkerprint (Very rare Fully Autographed photographic Walkerprint, dated circa 1991 just before the release of Generation Terrorists, featuring an image of the band sat down with Nicky crouched. Despite pin-holes to the top & bottom middle, as well as the corners, the front shows only light discolouration. There is also some remains of poster putty to the corners on the reverse, but this doesn't really impact it in any great way. This has been signed by James, Sean, Nicky and Richey, over each of their images in black felt or ballpoint pen. A superb and authentic piece of Manics history, which would look superb framed)
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