Yorkshire Times

• 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.