Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking

1 Critical Thinking

2 Decline & Fall

3 Brushstrokes of Reunion

4 Hiding in Plain Sight

5 People Ruin Paintings

6 Dear Stephen

7 Being Baptised

8 My Brave Friend

9 Out of Time Revival

10 Deleted Scenes

11 Late Day Peaks

12 Onemanmilitia

Notes: Vinyl LP pressing. 2025 release. Manic Street Preachers return with their most urgent album in years. This is a record of opposites colliding – of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.