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Manic Street Preachers: The Ultra Vivid Lament
LP+ 7″ single
19439895431, Sony / Columbia, Europe, 2021
Limited edition, 180 gram vinyl
A1 Still Snowing In Sapporo
A2 Orwellian
A3 The Secret He Had Missed (feat. Julia Cumming)
A4 Quest For Ancient Colour
A5 Don’t Let The Night Divide Us
B6 Diapause
B7 Complicated Illusions
B8 Into The Waves Of Love
B9 Blank Diary Entry (feat. Mark Lanegan)
B10 Happy Bored Alone
B11 Afterending
C Orwellian
D Orwellian (Gwenno Remix)
‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is the 14th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction; a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.
Musically, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is inspired by a formative years record box (ABBA, post-Eno Roxy Music, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fables-era REM, Bowie’s Lodger) though the end result could only be the unique union of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore, collectively one of the UK’s most consistently brilliant rock’n’roll bands for over three decades.
