Album info

• Title Critical Thinking
• Artist Manic Street Preachers
• Year 2025
• Genre Alternative

Tracklist

1. Critical Thinking
2. Decline & Fall
3. Brushstrokes of Reunion
4. Hiding in Plain Sight
5. People Ruin Paintings
6. Dear Stephen
7. Being Baptised
8. My Brave Friend
9. Out of Time Revival
10. Deleted Scenes
11. Late Day Peeaks
12. OneManMilitia

Thoughts

I was so looking forward to this Manics album, just like I was last time, and… just like last time, it wasn’t quite as good as I hoped. I had very mixed feelings about the first track - good to hear something a little bit different from the boys but can’t say I agree with everything they’re whining about in there. The rest of the album falls back to the sound you know, and it’s perfectly good and fine to listen to but just doesn’t hit those heady heights of Resistence is Futile… and strikes a quite angry-at-the-world note that I just wasn’t feeling.

Rating: 2 / 5