18. POSTCARDS FROM A YOUNG MAN
Manic Street Preachers
Label: Columbia
Key track: Golden Platitudes
Described by James Dean Bradfield as their "last shot at mass communication", the Manics' 10th album saw them shake off the spectre of 2009's Journal For Plague Lovers and deliver Stooges-esque stomps (Auto-Intoxication), celeb-assisted balladry (Ian McCulloch sings on Some Kind Of Nothingness) and enough gonzo-rock riffing to satisfy fans of mid-'90s melodic peak Everything Must Go. Amid the bluster, some typically astute observations, with Golden Platitudes a withering, string-laden assault on the failure of New Labour.
Listen on Spotify: Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man.
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