Critical Thinking

Description

Manic Street Preachers return with their most urgent album in years. This is a record of opposites colliding – of dialectics trying to find a path of resolution. While the music has an effervescence and an elegiac uplift, most of the words deal with the cold analysis of the self, the exception being the three lyrics by James (Dean Bradfield) which look for and hopefully find answers in people, their memories, language and beliefs.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Critical Thinking – Manic Street Preachers (3.01)
2. Decline & Fall – Manic Street Preachers (3.42)
3. Brushstrokes of Reunion – Manic Street Preachers (3.35)
4. Hiding in Plain Sight – Manic Street Preachers (3.34)
5. People Ruin Paintings – Manic Street Preachers (4.22)
6. Dear Stephen – Manic Street Preachers (3.31)
7. Being Baptised – Manic Street Preachers (4.02)
8. My Brave Friend – Manic Street Preachers (3.23)
9. Out of Time Revival – Manic Street Preachers (2.55)
10. Deleted Scenes – Manic Street Preachers (3.23)
11. Late Day Peaks – Manic Street Preachers (3.14)
12. OneManMilitia – Manic Street Preachers (2.53)
Disc 2
1. Critical Thinking (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.01)
2. Decline and Fall (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.47)
3. Brushstrokes of Reunion (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.37)
4. Hiding in Plain Sight (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.36)
5. People Ruin Paintings (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (4.22)
6. Dear Stephen (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.31)
7. Being Baptised (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (4.07)
8. My Brave Friend (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.16)
9. Out of Time Revival (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.00)
10. Deleted Scenes (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.30)
11. Late Day Peaks (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (3.19)
12. OneManMilitia (Demo) (Demo) – Manic Street Preachers (2.40)
13. Decline & Fall (Steven Wilson Remix) (Bonus Track) – Manic Street Preachers (9.20)