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Critical Thinking

Manic Street Preachers

  • Manic Street Preachers – 'Critical Thinking' review | NME | Feb. 12, 2025, 10:51 a.m.
    • The opening title track of Manic Street Preachers’ 15th album ‘Critical Thinking’ finds the motor-mouthed, sabre-rattling bassist and lyricist Wire aghast and rudderless in a fractured world.
  • Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking | Dork | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
    • Label: Columbia Records Released: 14th February 2025 Having accepted their days of hit singles are behind them, Manic Street Preachers have nonetheless continued releasing albums at a regular tic, and ‘Critical Thinking’, their fifteenth, finds them scratching their heads at the cultural landscape they find themselves in.
  • Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 12, 2025, midnight
    • If to suggest that Manic Street Preachers suffered from the strength of their own caricature – angry young men with a message; a still since unrivalled ability to combine politics and pop for chart success – is an exaggeration, then at least the way that fifteenth album ‘Critical Thinking’ starts goes some way towards misdirecting the bulk of the trio’s latest.
  • Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking - clashmusic.com | Clash Magazine | Feb. 10, 2025, 3:11 p.m.
    • Where once a Wire vocal was tucked away in the middle of an album so it could do minimal harm, Nicky is the first voice on ‘Critical Thinking’, taking aim at modern buzzwords and clichéd phrases whose vacuous nature has riled the ageing antagonist.
  • Manic Street Preachers : Reflections On A Splintered World | DIY | Jan. 30, 2025, midnight
    • That resulting album - next month’s ‘Critical Thinking’ - is proof that the finish line is still nowhere in sight. A high-velocity juggernaut of relentless energy, the band’s knack for a tender, infectious melody locks horns with their impulse to craft the occasional anthemic chorus.