Manic Street Preachers on new album ‘Critical Thinking’: “Sometimes just to have your best songs is enough”
nme.comManic Street Preachers have opened up about the inspiration in their new album ‘Critical Thinking’, and said that they approached the writing process “with a bit more urgency than usual”.It comes after the band returned with their triumphant single, ‘Decline & Fall’, back in August, and announced details of their upcoming 15th album.They had been teasing new material in advance, and the track arrived on the eve of the 30th anniversary of 1994 album ‘The Holy Bible’.
It was their first new music since 2021’s chart-topping 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.Now, the members have opened up about the new project in an interview, and revealed that the songs came together across two years.“We started with a bit more urgency than usual.
Without knowing it, we had five or six demos already… maybe it was that subconscious threat of time running out after COVID,” James Dean Bradfield told MOJO.“There was no MO.
Sometimes we played live together in a definite band environment, other times it was more isolated, where I just laid a guitar down to a click [track], or Nick [Wire] put a vocal down with a click, or I’d do a really rough acoustic version, and we’d build from those.
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