Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking (Vinyl) Embryo To top it off

To top it off

At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience

It is easy to understand the appeal that these sides continue to hold

“We did most of the songs in the same way where I was at the piano or on guitar and Leon was playing drums and we were just jamming on stuff

Straight Outta Compton

Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking (Vinyl) Embryo To top it offManic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album Critical Thinking. Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), Hiding in Plain Sight contrasts a fearful midlife nostalgia one in which the writer longs to keep the curtains drawn all day with a gloriously uplifting melody that draws on classic 70s rocknroll of The Only Ones, Cockney Rebel and the loose flow of Dinosaur