Note : I love the manics more than most of my close family, and almost all of my friends. This review will be insanely biased and opinionated.
'Journal for Plague Lovers' Will be the next manics album due for release this may, and if i was james, nicky and sean i would be totally bricking it. an album using purely lyrics from richey edwards old lyrics book, it sounds like its the direction that manics fans have wanted the band to go for a decade, yet they still queiry the general idea of 'JFPL's intergrity and taste.
Theyre all very wrong. 'Peeled Apples' is the most urgent song the manics have recorded since 'Found That Soul', sounding neither punk nor motown, yet heavy and soulful. The lyrics are predictably amazing too, with lines such as 'The Levi jean will always be stronger than an Uzi' proving why richey always was the best lyric writer in the manics. 'JCEQT' is more 'Everything Must Go' era manics, and thankfully its still as fantastic as their most sucessful album released nearly 15 years ago.
James has describes the album as 'when disgust turns to despair and uncertain, where 'the holy bible' was where anger turns to disgust.'. If the rest of the record it more of the same, then may cannot come soon enough....
8/10
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