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Manic Street Preachers have announced they will be releasing a new album and doing a UK-wide tour later this year.
The band’s 14th studio album, The Ultra Vivid Lament, will be released on September 3.
The first track on the album- Orwellian – was released today (Friday, May 14), and is available on streaming services.
The band said their new track Orwellian is “about the battle to claim meaning, the erasing of context within debate, the overriding sense of factional conflict driven by digital platforms leading to a perpetual state of culture war”.
A nationwide tour has also been announced, with the band set to perform in front of NHS workers in Cardiff on July 16 and July 17.
The band was formed in Blackwood in 1986, and has gone on to release hits such as Motorcycle Emptiness, A Design for Life, If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next and (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love.
The band even produced Wales’ official Euro 2016 song – Together Stronger (C’mon Wales).
Tracks on the new album
1. Still Snowing In Sapporo
2. Orwellian
3. The Secret He Had Missed
4. Quest For Ancient Colour
5. Don’t Let the Night Divide Us
6. Diapause
7. Complicated Illusions
8. Into The Waves of Love
9. Blank Diary Entry
10. Happy Bored Alone
11. Afterending
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