Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking Big Brother Fully cementing Mercury Rev’s rebirth

Fully cementing Mercury Rev’s rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of the popular American songbook

Black Francis was one of the most unique vocal stylists of the '80s

and prepare to fall for On The Lips

An intimate recording documenting a Sunday night that Evan Dando spent recording new songs with just an acoustic guitar (and some revealing commentary) in a hotel room in Bondi Beach

The second collaborative album from Laetitia Sadier [Stereolab and solo] and Brazil's Mombojó

Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking Big Brother Fully cementing Mercury Rev’s rebirthThe Manic Street Preachers return with their most urgent album in years. This is a record of opposites colliding of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.