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• Albums: Manic Street Preachers - <i>Critical Thinking</i> | Yorkshire Times
Manic Street Preaches - Critical Thinking Critical Thinking; Decline and Fall; Brushstokes of Reunion; Hiding in Plain Sight; People Ruin Paintings; Dear Stephen; Being Baptised; My Brave Friend; Out of Time Revival; Deleted Scenes; Late Day Peaks; One Man Militia (Sony Music) While most of their peers are content to rest on their laurels and cannot be bothered to record any new music, preferring instead to go on tour performing old albums, often in their entirety, the Manic Street Preachers return with this surprisingly good new album—their fifteenth.

• Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking | Spectrum Culture | March 4, 2025, 6:03 a.m.
As with so much of the Manics’ best work, it’s an album that’s easy to listen to, but that lingers uneasily in the mind; as it should.

• The Decline and Lull: The Manics Grow Dull Gracefully on ‘Critical Thinking | Necessary Evil | March 1, 2025, 3:35 p.m.
Album 15 [FIFTEEN] from the Manics, and maybe we should temper our expectations (even if the album itself promises to be something so much better)

• ALBUM REVIEW: Manic Street Preachers – Critical Thinking | Bring the Noise UK
'Critical Thinking', the fifteenth album from the Manic Street Preachers, is finally here and it was definitely worth the wait! 

• Review: Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking | Joe Rainey | Feb. 21, 2025, 9:04 p.m.
Review of Manic Street Preachers' "Critical Thinking": energetic Britpop with introspective lyrics, solid but repetitive. Still worth a spin!

• ‘Dear Stephen’ a song about Morrissey by Manic Street Preachers | Morrissey-solo
The Manic Street Preachers have a song on their new album ‘Critical Thinking’ called ‘Dear Stephen’, about Morrissey. Here’s an excerpt from the NME interview with the band. “At the centre of the album is ‘Dear Stephen’ – inspired by a postcard sent to Wire as a teen from Morrissey at the...

• Is This Manic Street Preachers' Best Album in Years—or Just Okay? | www.digmeoutpodcast.com
Some fans are calling it a return to form, others say it plays it too safe. We dig into the highs, lows, and hidden gems.

• Albums Of The Week: Manic Street Preachers | Critical Thinking | Tinnitist | Feb. 13, 2025, midnight
T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Critical Thinking is Manic Street Preachers’ 15th studio album. It celebrates conflicting ideas, with unflinchingly soul-searching lyrics meeting some of the most head-on, addictive melodies the band have ever recorded.

• Is This Manic Street Preachers' Best Album in Years—or Just Okay? | substack.com
Some fans are calling it a return to form, others say it plays it too safe. We dig into the highs, lows, and hidden gems.

• Manic Street Preachers: The story behind David Hurn album cover | BBC | Feb. 14, 2025, 2:03 p.m.
Critical Thinking is the Manics' 15th studio album and the first to feature the lead vocals of bassist Nicky Wire, a long-time admirer of Hurn who he has described as a "colossus" of...

• Manic Street Preachers lead UK album chart race ahead of Sabrina Carpenter | Dork | Feb. 18, 2025, 1:41 p.m.
The Welsh band's fifteenth album 'Critical Thinking' leads the UK charts, outpacing Sabrina Carpenter's release by 2,700 units.

• NCB Radio: Critical Thinking by Manic Street Preachers (Review) | Cornish & Devon Post | Feb. 14, 2025, 1:22 a.m.
“It’s impossible to expect the Manic Street Preachers to be the same now aged 56 and 57 as they were 31 years ago.”

• Album Review: Manic Street Preachers - Critical Thinking | Suzie Scribbles | Feb. 17, 2025, 9:04 a.m.
Manic Street Preachers released their latest album Critical Thinking this month, combining a rockier sound with...

• BBC Radio 6 Music - Huw Stephens, Manic Street Preachers on their new album Critical Thinking | BBC
James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire join Huw to chat the Manic's new album.

• Manic Street Preachers ahead of Sabrina Carpenter in race for this week's UK Number One album  | NME | Feb. 18, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
Manic Street Preachers have moved ahead of Sabrina Carpenter in the race for the UK Number One album this week.

• Manic Street Preachers on their song about Morrissey, ‘Critical ... | NME | Feb. 14, 2025, midnight
Manic Street Preachers on the meaning of ‘Dear Stephen’ (inspired by Morrissey), new album ‘Critical Thinking’, 30 years without Richey Edwards, and what's next.

• 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' 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: "Muzzling young people only leads to bitterness ... | Dork | Jan. 31, 2025, midnight
‘Critical Thinking’ is your 15th album, an incredible achievement. All the Manics albums have their own distinctive character and world they inhabit, so what does ‘Critical Thinking’ represent within the Manic Street Preachers universe?

• Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking review – Consistency in a ... | The Irish Times | Feb. 13, 2025, midnight
Manic Street Preachers materialised in 1991 as indie rock’s self-styled Generation Terrorists (as they dubbed themselves on their debut album), but by the middle of the decade these working ...

• 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 - 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’ new album ‘Critical Thinking ... | NME | Jan. 28, 2025, midnight
Manic Street Preachers ‘ new album ‘Critical Thinking’ appears to have delayed its release. The upcoming record, originally meant to be released on January 31, is now being shown to be...

• 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.

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