Manics’ Nicky Wire surprise releases new solo album ‘Intimism’
nme.comManic Street Preachers‘ Nicky Wire has surprise released his new solo album ‘Intimism’ – check it out below.Having recently dropped the launch single ‘Contact Sheets‘, the Manics’ bassist and lyricist has shared his second solo record in full via BandCamp.“This record is a collage pieced together over the last decade,” said Wire. “It’s as me as me can be – a distillation of my purest indie fantasies, a place where all those broken lists of regret have found themselves realigned.
I found a musical and lyrical language I could call my own. A landscape of mundane miracles, interior monologues and lacerating self loathing.
As the song says: ‘I am an -ist / I am an -ism / a lifelong affair with tunnel vision’.”Wire released his debut solo debut ‘I Killed The Zeitgeist’ back in 2006, with fans 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.
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