Manic Street Preachers announce new album ‘Critical Thinking’
The Welsh icons will make their return next year.
By Nick Reilly
Manic Street Preachers will release new album Critical Thinking on January 31st.
The fifteenth album from the Welsh icons was recorded at the band’s Door To The River Studio and the stories Rockfield Studios alongside their regular collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams, as well as being mixed by Caesar Edmunds.
It’s launched by the new single ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’ which marks something of a Manics first – with Nicky Wire on lead vocals for the first time.
Frontman Nicky 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 (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.”
They’ll also head out on a new tour in Spring 2025, see the dates for that in full below.
April
11 Glasgow Barrowland
12 Glasgow Barrowland
18 London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
19 London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
25 Wolverhampton The Civic at the Halls
26 Bristol Beacon
May
2 Manchester O2 Apollo
3 Manchester O2 Apollo
9 Swansea Arena
10 Swansea Arena