Manic Street Preachers have released their new single ‘Decline & Fall’’ the first track to be made available from their forthcoming fifteenth studio album. It’s their first new music since The Ultra Vivid Lament, which reached No 1 in the Official UK Album Charts in September 2021.
With musical inspiration from all time Manics favourites The Skids, Gran Turismo era The Cardigans alongside The War on Drugs, the driving 80s-style pop rock sound of ‘Decline & Fall’ is billed as a “joyous anthem for an era of self-hatred.” Recorded at the band’s Door To The River studio in Newport and Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, it was produced by regular collaborators Dave Eringa and Loz Williams and mixed by Caesar Edmunds (Beach House/Suede/Wet Leg).
On the new song, the band say: “Musically with ‘Decline & Fall’ we tried to create forward motion – a song which harnesses the past to propel it into the future – the lyric is one of realisation and understanding – of celebrating the tiny miracles that still exist whilst accepting and embracing managed decline”.
The band have just completed a sold out UK co-headline tour with Suede which received incredible reviews across the board. Their next live show will be Radio 2 In The Park at Moor Park in Preston on 8th September. Click here for ticket information.
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