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• NEW 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.

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• The Murder Capital announce new album Blindness | Northern Transmissions
The Murder Capital have announced their new album Blindness will be released on February 21, 2025. With the news, the Irish band, have shared new single “Words Lost Meaning”. Blindness, follows their previous LP Gigi’s Recovery.

• The Murder Capital - Blindness | Northern Transmissions
Back again with their highly anticipated third album, Irish quintet ‘The Murder Capital’ releases a bold new post-punk revival album that builds on the scaffolding of previous albums both sonically and lyrically.

• The Murder Capital - Blindness review • DIY Magazine | DIY | Feb. 19, 2025, midnight
On third album ‘Blindness’, The Murder Capital grapple with flawed patriotism and innate human error, all while frontman James McGovern is determined to confront – and even embrace – his own blind spots.

• The Murder Capital – ‘Blindness’ review: in pursuit of urgency | NME | Feb. 21, 2025, 9 a.m.
On ‘Blindness’, The Murder Capital aim to purge the inertia behind their previous record, ‘Gigi’s Recovery’, but occasionally fall short.

• The Murder Capital: Blindness | Spectrum Culture | March 2, 2025, midnight
The Murder Capital’s first two albums, released in 2019 and 2023, were well received, drenched in a kind of Peter Murphy/Bauhaus post-punk, full of intensity and social critique. So the anticipation of their third studio release, Blindness , has been understandably high if tempered with the expectation that not all bands can sustain their ...

• Albums Of The Week: The Murder Capital | Blindness | Tinnitist | Feb. 20, 2025, midnight
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Following the universal acclaim for their two first records, The Murder Capital are back with Blindness, their vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album.

• Interview The Murder Capital : Blind Faith - diymag.com | DIY | Feb. 17, 2025, midnight
On third album ‘Blindness’, The Murder Capital grapple with flawed patriotism and innate human error, all while frontman James McGovern is determined to confront – and even embrace – his own blind spots.

• The Murder Capital – Blindness | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News ... | Clash Magazine | Feb. 21, 2025, 4:38 p.m.
Back in the late 2010’s, The Murder Capital – together with Fontaines D.C. – became the poster boys for a new generation of Irish post punk bands. But that’s not to say that the Dublin five-piece wished to have their sound simplified by this tag. They boldly changed things up on 2023’s ‘Gigi’s Recovery’ for a mournful and introspective portrayal of self-discovery and recovery.

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• NEW 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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• ONE OK ROCK’s Takahiro Moriuchi reveals his favorite song from DETOX | Alternative Press
The Tokyo band’s world tour kicks off in April.

• ONE OK ROCK 'Detox' Special Edition Magazine | Rock Sound | Feb. 10, 2025, 10:35 a.m.
ONE OK ROCK are on the cover of a new special edition of Rock Sound magazine, celebrating the release of their new album 'Detox'.

• Album review: ONE OK ROCK – DETOX | Kerrang!
Japanese rockers ONE OK ROCK seem to have lost the ability to surprise on disappointing 11th album, DETOX.

• ALBUM REVIEW: ONE OK ROCK - ‘DETOX’ | The Soundboard | Feb. 21, 2025, 8:56 a.m.
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• ONE OK ROCK Unveil Music Video For 'Tropical Therapy' | Rock Sound | Feb. 21, 2025, 2:33 p.m.
ONE OK ROCK have released the music video for 'Tropical Therapy', the latest single taken from the new album 'Detox'.

• ONE OK ROCK Release New Album 'DETOX' – Listen | Billboard Philippines - Music Charts, News, Photos & Video | Feb. 21, 2025, 2:22 p.m.
J-rock veterans ONE OK ROCK are back with their 11th studio album, entitled 'DETOX,' released today, February 21, 2025 (Friday)

• ONE OK ROCK Goes Back to Its Roots in New ‘DETOX’ Album | HYPEBEAST | Feb. 21, 2025, 6:04 a.m.
Embarking on a 15-city North America tour in April.

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