How To Buy: Manic Street Preachers - Q Magazine, January 2012
Title: | How To Buy: Manic Street Preachers |
Publication: | Q Magazine |
Date: | January 2012 |
Writer: | Dorian Lynskey |
Photos: | Tom Sheehan |
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Still angry after all these years... From the inflammatory myth-building of 1991's You Love Us to 2010's reflectively titled Postcards From A Young Man, the Manic Street Preachers have always conducted a dialogue with their own reputation, looking back in order to move forward. Some albums have worked better than others but each one has had something new and necessary to say. So the back catalogue explorer can follow them on a fascinating path from small-town provocateurs via arena-rock stars to the elder statesmen summed up in the title of new singles collection National Treasures. The hungry lyrical intelligence of Nicky Wire and the late Richey Edwards has always been matched by the musical voracity of James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore. Few bands can claim, at different points, to have sounded like Guns N' Roses and Depeche Mode; PiL and Rush; Queen and Magazine. Such a diverse creative journey was as impossible to foresee back in 1989 as it is remarkable to reflect on now. |
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