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Manic Street Preachers have dropped the reflective new single ‘Brushstrokes Of Reunion’. Check it out below.Shared today (January 31), the track marks the latest single from the group’s forthcoming album.

Manic Street Preachers have shared the Nicky Wire-fronted single ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’, and announced details of new album ‘Critical Thinking’ and a UK tour. Check it all out below, along with Wire telling us about the LP’s artwork.Following on from lead single ‘Decline & Fall‘, the follow-up to 2021’s acclaimed chart-topping 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ comes teased by ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’ – with bassist and lyricist Wire taking up lead vocals.The band said that the song was initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton (“I am a collection of dismantled almosts“) and draws on a “fearful midlife nostalgia” set against typical Manics bittersweet arena euphoria – inspired by the “classic ’70s rock’n’roll” of The Only Ones and Cockney Rebel and alongside Dinosaur Jr’s ‘Freak Scene’.Wire’s vocal adds his usual Echo & The Bunnymen-esque melancholy as he mourns “the man I used to be, in a decade I felt free” and takes centre-stage in the fittingly nostalgic video directed by longtime collaborator Kieran Evans – drawing on the band’s many literary influences and aesthetic touchstones.

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Manic Street Preachers have shared a previously unheard song called ‘Studies In Paralysis’ with an official video by Kieran Evans – check that out below.The song appears on the band’s forthcoming expanded and remastered version of 2001 album ‘Know Your Enemy’, which will be released on September 9 and can be pre-ordered here.The album will be divided into two albums across two disks, ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Door To The River’. The three CD format of the release, also includes a disk of unreleased demos.Of the video for ‘Studies In Paralysis’, director Kieran Evans said: “It started with an email from [Nicky] Wire (it always does!).  Would I be up for working on visualising two unheard tracks from the ‘Know Your Enemy’ sessions that were to feature in the beautifully expanded and reworked re-issue of the album?  Of course I would!  Both ‘Rosebud’ and ‘Studies In Paralysis’ landed an hour later and were stunning and took my breath away.

Manic Street Preachers have shared a video for their new single ‘Complicated Illusions’ – you can watch it below.The Welsh band’s latest track is taken from their 14th studio album, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, which topped the UK album chart last month, marking their first Number One album in 23 years.‘Complicated Illusions’ is described by the group as “the battle between chaos and calm with a gliding majestic lyrical flow – leaning towards More Than This era-Roxy – Bowie’s Lodger – peak pop Echo and the Bunnymen.”Released alongside a hazy set of visuals created by Kieran Evans, the filmmaker said of the track: “I’ve always felt the track feels like an epic soundtrack to an as yet made film so I’ve gone for a visual/lyric type affair using a