Credits:

Manic Street Preachers

Description:

Their fourteenth studio album, and the first in three years, is now complete. This is the first album of theirs to be initially inspired by piano rather than guitar. Recorded in the winter of 2020-21 with longtime collaborator Dave Eringa (The Who) at Rockfield in Monmouth, Wales, and at their Newport-based Door to the River Studios, the album was later joined by David Wrench (Blossoms, Frank Ocean Frank Ocean, and Arlo Parks) did the mixing. The album features two guest vocalists, Julia Cumming (Sunflower Bean) on "The Secret He Had Mist" and Mark Lanegan on "Blank Diary Entry". The recording is a perfect blend of introspection, quiet intensity and sublime, irresistible songs. These elements run throughout, from the ambient humming of the opening track, the interestingly titled "Still Snowing in Sapporo" for the Japanese, to the ending. *This product will be available for sale on Friday, so products will be delivered on or after the day of release.

Tracklisting:

1 Still Snowing in Sapporo
2 Orwellian
3 The Secret He Had Missed
4 Quest for Ancient Colour
5 Don’t Let the Night Divide Us
6 Diapause
7 Complicated Illusions
8 Into the Waves of Love
9 Blank Diary Entry
10 Happy Bored Alone
11 Afterending