Description: Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking - Vinyl Bundle + Signed Art Card Note: this is a presale and will be posted following its release on 31st January 2025 This bundle contains: 1 x Standard LP 1 x Alt Cover LP 1 x 7" Single (2 Bonus Tracks) 1 x Signed Art Card Manic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album and UK tour to accompany it. ‘Critical Thinking’ is released on Columbia 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 now (25th October). Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ contrasts a fearful midlife nostalgia - one in which the writer longs to “keep the curtains drawn all day” - with a gloriously uplifting melody that draws on classic ’70s rock’n’roll of The Only Ones, Cockney Rebel and the loose flow of Dinosaur Jr’s ‘Freak Scene’. Recorded at the band’s Door To The River Studio and Rockfield, Monmouth, the song features a lead vocal by Nicky Wire and added vocals by Lana McDonagh. It was produced by the band with regular collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams and mixed by Caesar Edmunds (St Vincent/Wet Leg). ‘Critical Thinking’ celebrates conflicting ideas colliding, with unflinchingly soul-searching lyrics meeting some of the most head-on, addictive melodies the band have ever recorded. Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire on Critical Thinking: “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 (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.” Speaking to Mojo Magazine, James Dean Bradfield said “Sometimes just to have your best songs is enough, just putting a record out and not trying to describe a big overarching concept, even though there is a thread there.” The record is available on LP, CD, hardbook CD and cassette with two brand new songs available on a limited 7”, a remix of ‘Decline & Fall’ by Steven Wilson
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Artist: Manic Street Preachers
Speed: 33 RPM
Release Title: Critical Thinking
Case Type: Cardboard Sleeve
Material: Vinyl
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Edition: Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
Colour: Black
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Mint (M)
Release Year: 2025
Sleeve Grading: Mint (M)
Record Size: 12"
Style: Indie, Indie Rock, Pop Rock
Genre: Alternative, Pop, Rock
