Manic Street Preachers on stage WELSH rock band Manic Street Preachers are heading to York on their latest tour. The band are returning with their 14th studio album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ on September 3 released on Columbia/Sony and have announced a tour for this autumn that includes York Barbican on October 4. ‘Orwellian’ - the first track will be released today (May 14). A departure from their last release (2018’s ‘Resistance is Futile’), ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is the first Manic Street Preachers album initially conceived on piano rather than guitar. It was recorded over winter 2020/21 in Wales at Rockfield in Monmouth and the bands’ Door to the River studio in Newport with longtime collaborator Dave Eringa (The Who), before being mixed by David Wrench (Blossoms, Frank Ocean, Arlo Parks).
Christian Eede
, May 14th, 2021 14:30
They ve also shared a new single, Orwellian
Manic Street Preachers will release a new album this September.
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The Ultra Vivid Lament, the band s 14th studio album takes in 11 tracks that were recorded over the winter of 2020 and start of this year. It s the first Manic Street Preachers album to be initially conceived on piano rather than guitar, and features guest contributions from Mark Lanegan and Sunflower Bean s Julia Cumming. You can watch a lyric video for the lead single, Orwellian , above.
The band say the track is about the battle to claim meaning, the erasing of context within debate, the overriding sense of factional conflict driven by digital platforms leading to a perpetual state of culture war, and add that it echoes ABBA, the majesty of Alan Rankine s playing in the Associates and Talk Talk s It s My Life with a Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo.
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