7.7
Avg Score
4
Opinions
#8,672
All Time
11
Tracks
“Any Abba fans unable to wait until November to hear the new album from the 1970s’ best pop band could do worse than give the Manic Street Preachers’ 14th LP a listen. For the first time, they have written songs on piano instead of guitar, and the result is an artfully realised exercise in melancholic, grown-up pop with textures that owe much to the Swedes’ later work. It’s also a welcome return to”
“In the time between Manic Street Preachers’ last record, 2018’s ‘Resistance Is Futile’, and the onset of the pandemic last year, chief songwriter Nicky Wire lost both his mother and father to cancer. Their losses casted a huge shadow over his writing for ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’. In lockdown, Wire went deep into his insecurities – his grief, a sense of alienation from the modern world, and existe”
“Manic Street Preachers go on a mildly experimental journey on The Ultra Vivid Lament”
