This is kind of a neat album. For those of you who didn’t know, Richey Edwards disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle in 1995, and Manic Street Preachers has been a fraction of its former self ever since (literally). Well, all the songs in this 13-track effort were written by Edwards. How does that happen? Well, in what was some awesome foreshadowing to the unaware, he left a book of poetry with the band’s bassist, Nicky Wire. To complete this bizarre situation, Edwards should now emerge from the shadows and sue, saying he never wanted the prose to see the light of day, let alone be made into a record.
So how does it sound? Like old Manic Street Preachers. Nothing here is a surprise. “Me and Stephen Hawking” is a good example of the fun that can be had on this album. I really like the guitar. It reminds me of what the Posies were doing back then.
I’m also a fan of “Marlon J.D.,” so much so that I wish it had its own page on Facebook. “Pretension/Repulsion” sounds like a Scorpions song. Really. “William’s Last Words” sounds like a Lou Reed song.
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