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Manic Street Preachers have released the details of their fifteenth studio album, Critical Thinking.
The veteran rockers - made up of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore - also unveiled their new single Hiding In Plain Sight which sees bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire take on lead vocals for the first time ever.
Nicky Wire said of 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 frontman 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.”
