Manic Street Preachers are back – sharing new single ‘Orwellian’ as well as announcing details of their 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ along with a UK tour.The follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed ‘Resistance Is Futile‘ will arrive on September 3, and was recorded at the legendary Rockfield studios as well as their own Door to the River HQ with long-time collaborator Dave Eringa – featuring Julia Cumming of Sunflower Bean on ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ and Mark Lanegan on ‘Blank Diary Entry’.The first taster of the album is the single ‘Orwellian’, a track that calls upon the shimmering, futuristic and European sounds of their ‘Futurology’ era while painting a world where “everywhere you look, everywhere you turn, the future fights the past”.
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