It's difficult not to look at The Holy Bible as Richey James' last will and testament, yet that only makes the record all the more powerful. A remarkable step forward from...
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Debut albums rarely come as ambitious as the Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists. Released in England as a double album (it was trimmed to the length of a single...
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Taking the hard-rock inclinations of Generation Terrorists to an extreme, the Manic Street Preachers delivered a flawed but intriguing second album with Gold Against the...
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Months after the release of the harrowing The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey James disappeared, leaving no trace of his whereabouts or his well-being....
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Beginning with the Manic Street Preachers' 1991 EP, the Welsh quartet has tried desperately to generate fire but, at least on this side of the Atlantic, has succeeded only...
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If Everything Must Go found Manic Street Preachers coping with Richey James' sudden, unexplained disappearance, its follow-up, This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours, finds them...
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On their new album, Know Your Enemy, precious Welsh rockers the Manic Street Preachers seem to take a cue from Nick Drake, Stereolab, Blur and others who've enjoyed success...
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Manic Street Preachers have always been a band of very specific charms, something that has not translated outside of the U.K. particularly well. Although it boasts a...
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It's difficult not to look at The Holy Bible as Richey James' last will and testament, yet that only makes the record all the more powerful. A remarkable step forward from...
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Instead of being the return to form it was clearly intended to be, Manic Street Preachers' sixth album, Know Your Enemy, sucked the life out of the band, collapsing in a...
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It's with no small sense of irony that the Manic Street Preachers' riveting, galvanizing classic third album, The Holy Bible, gets its first American release in 2005 as a...
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