The Welsh band on Trojan horse tracks, losing Richey Edwards and finding a new piano-pop direction.
The Manic Street Preachers found themselves at a traumatic crossroads in 1995.
"We were like, 'Well, we don't know if Richey would even want to be part of this band any more, but we think he may have liked this song'. And that made us go forward."Edwards was never found, but after many false trails and rumoured sightings he was legally declared dead in 2008, a fact some still question.
Using similar tactics, they managed to subsequently smuggle If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next and The Masses Against the Classes to the top of the UK singles chart. Hidden within the dreamy new pop packaging though, as ever, is a pointed message from the pen of wordsmith Wire. Lead single Orwellian finds the band waking up in a dystopian future where the political waters are muddied - "and language is deliberately misused by those in power -"It's about how language can be reordered then appropriated to accuse or to justify to build or destroy," Bradfield explains.
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