Photo credit / Alex Lake

Friday saw Welsh outfit Manic Street Preachers announce details of their fifteenth studio album alongside news of a UK tour to accompany it. Coinciding with the album, entitled 'Critical Thinking', released on Columbia on 31st January 2025, the band have shared the record's latest single Hiding in Plain Sight. Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire on Critical Thinking: “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.The music is energised and at times euphoric. Recording could sometimes be sporadic and isolated, at other times we played live in a band setting, again the opposites making sense with each other. There are crises at the heart of these songs. They are microcosms of skepticism and suspicion, the drive to the internal seems inevitable - start with yourself, maybe the rest will follow.” Take a listen to the new single below.

UK Tour Dates
April 11th - Glasgow Barrowland
April 12th - Glasgow Barrowland
April 18th - London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
April 19th - London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
April 25th - Wolverhampton The Civic at the Halls
April 26th - Bristol Beacon
May 2nd - Manchester O2 Apollo
May 3rd - Manchester O2 Apollo
May 9th - Swansea Arena
May 10th - Swansea Arena

Tickets will be available at 9.30am Friday 1st November: https://ManicStreetPreachers.lnk.to/tickets

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