Album review: The Ultra Vivid Lament Manic Street Preachers Released on 10 September Sony/Columbia ★★★★ by Simon Whittle · “Words wage war, meanings being missed,” sings James Dean Bradfield on Orwellian—first single from the new Manics album The Ultra Vivid Lament—“I’ll walk you through the apocalypse.” What an apocalypse the past 18 months has been. Main […]

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