Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire shares new solo track ‘Contact Sheets’

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Manic Street Preachers‘ bassist Nicky Wire has shared a new solo track ‘Contact Sheets’. Check it out below.The bassist, lyricist and polaroid artist of the Welsh rock veterans released his solo debut ‘I Killed The Zeitgeist’, and fans have been expecting news of the “modern, electronic, soothsaying” follow-up record for some years now.“It’s done,” Wire told NME in 2021. “Whatever, I might bury it in a fucking pond somewhere, I might burn it, I might do it mail order, I might do it on Bandcamp.

It’s very fucking fragile. It’s got some very off-kilter modern jazz and some C-86 indie vibes to it.”He continued: There’s some ‘Bitches Brew’-era Miles Davis in there, some obscure trumpet-led, and some songs that just sound like The Shop Assistants.

It features Gav [Fitzjohn] on the trumpet. Sean [Moore, drums and trumpet] refuses to play. He says his lip has gone.”Now, Wire has shared the first taster of new material on Bandcamp – with ‘Contact Sheets’ delivering on his promise of hazy C-86-inspred sounds, with lyrics typically nostalgic and elegiac.A post shared by Manic Street Preachers (@manics)Manics frontman James Dean Bradfield previously revealed that Wire had been recording his new LP while the singer was at work on his own previous solo album, ‘Even In Exile‘.“I’d have our studio one day, he’d have it the next, he asked me to play a guitar solo on one of his tracks, and yeah – his stuff is sounding great,” Bradfield told NME. “There was one song on there that was fucking amazing but hard to describe.