Critical Thinking

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Manic Street Preachers presents its fifteenth studio album and the accompanying UK tour, "Critical Thinking"."Critical Thinking" celebrates clashing contradictory ideas, with lyrics of unwavering depth meeting some of the most direct and addictive melodies the band has ever recorded.Nicky Wire, of Manic Street Preachers, talks about "Critical Thinking": "It's a record where opposites collide, where dialectics try to find a path to resolution. While the music is effervescent and elegiac, most of the lyrics deal with the cold analysis of the self, except for the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which seek and, hopefully, find answers in people, their memories, their language and their beliefs. The music is energetic and sometimes euphoric. The recording was sometimes sporadic and isolated, while at other times we played live as a band, again the oppositions make sense in relation to each other. There are crises at the heart of these songs. They are microcosms of skepticism and suspicion, the inward journey seems inevitable - start with yourself, maybe the rest will follow."Speaking to Mojo Magazine, James Dean Bradfield said: "Sometimes you just have to have your best songs, put out a record without trying to describe a big overarching concept, even if there is a common thread."Including a remix of "Decline & Fall" by Steven Wilson and demo versions of all the new album tracks on the deluxe CD.