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Manic Street Preachers

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Location: Blackwood, United Kingdom

Websites:

• http://myspace.com/manics
• http://manicstreetpreachers.com/

Bio: Manic Street Preachers’ critically lauded new album, A Journal For Plague Lovers, is available for pre-order now. The record is out September 15, 2009 via ... (more) Columbia Records.

With the pre-order, fans will receive a digital copy of the album immediately as well as a download code for 10 bonus remixes, to be delivered on September 15th. The album is available in 180 gram vinyl, CD, and digital formats and the CD version also includes a hidden bonus track, “Bag Lady.”

With A Journal For Plague Lovers one of the most critically acclaimed albums out of the UK this year, the Manics - singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, bass player Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore - have given free reign of each track to a handpicked selection of diverse remixers including Saint Etienne, Patrick Wolf, The Horrors, Four Tet, and Underworld. Underworld’s remix of “William’s Last Word” is the electronic duo’s first remix in ten years.

Of the remixes, Nicky Wire says, “We chose people for each track hoping they would bring us back something unique, that they’d find something we maybe hadn’t in the track. Without fail, they’ve done that. Heartfelt thanks from us to everyone involved.”

Journal For Plague Lovers, already a huge critical and commercial hit in the UK & Europe, is the first Manic Street Preachers album since 1994’s The Holy Bible to feature lyrics written entirely by their former guitarist and lyricist Richey Edwards. Edwards disappeared in early 1995, just hours before the band were due to fly to America to begin touring. Days later his car was found abandoned on a bridge in England, but he has never been found. Singer/guitarist James Dean Bradfield, bass player Nicky Wire and drummer Sean Moore had been left with several notebooks of lyrics and poems, given to them by Richey just weeks before his disappearance, and it’s these lyrics which fill Journal For Plague Lovers with a searing sense of dissatisfaction and the crackling wit that fans of The Holy Bible will immediately recognize.

The pre-order page also features an interview with the band and behind the scenes footage of the Manics recording process as well as a flip book of the journal that was left behind by Richey Edwards. (less)