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A recent review of the new
Manic Street Preachers single speculated that the band’s consistently good press coverage is due to a disproportionate amount of 30-something music journalists who over-romanticise the firebrand, iconic acts of their youth. Even bass player and propagandist-in-chief Nicky Wire thinks there’s something in this. “We’ve never inspired anyone really, band-wise,” he says, “but we’ve inspired lots of journalists and academia and people doing PhDs on RS Thomas.” Even with that caveat in mind, their latest album,
Futurology, has received notices it’s impossible to downplay. Their twelfth record follows less than a year after their eleventh, the introspective, downbeat