Manic Street Preachers have announced that the trio’s 15th studio album will be released on 31st January, 2025. Titled Critical Thinking, it was recorded at the band’s Door To The River Studio in Newport and Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, the sessions produced by the group themselves alongside long-running collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams. The news has been accompanied with the release of a new single, Hiding In Plain Sight, a song that marks a Manics first – a lead single with the vocal sung by bassist Nicky Wire.
Talking about Critical Thinking, Wire said, “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 (lead vocalist and guitarist James Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.”
