Time flies when you’re slashing your wrists! The Manic Street Preachers have announced that they’ll be back with studio album Number 10 in September, and they’ve promised it’ll be a much poppier affair after the bleak introspection of their last effort, Journal For Plague Lovers.
The new long player entitled Postcards From a Young Man will be pursuing the mass market, the band have promised, after a career lurching between popularist hits and excoriating punky paeans to self loathing, as well as enduring the disappearance of bandmate Richey Edwards in 1994. “We’re going for big radio hits on this one,” singer James Dean Bradfield told the NME. “It isn’t a follow-up to ‘Journal For Plague Lovers‘. It’s one last shot at mass communication.”
Check out the Manics in the clip for Motorcycle Emptiness in 1992
