Manic Street Preachers have shared their new single ‘The Secret He Had Missed’, featuring Sunflower Bean‘s Julia Cumming. Check it out below, along with our interview with bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire.Following on from recent single ‘Orwellian‘, ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ is the latest taster from the Welsh rock veterans upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.
One of two duets on the album – the other being ‘Blank Diary Entry’ featuring Mark Lanegan – the song is described as a “cousin” to the elegiac ‘The Girl Who Wanted To Be God’ from their classic fourth album ‘Everything Must Go’.“It’s probably the most Abba-influenced track on the album, the piano track especially,” Wire told NME. “It all came out really naturally.
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