Release date: 3rd September 2021

Standard LP With Exclusive 7"

The Ultra Vivid Lament is the 14th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction - a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.

Musically The Ultra Vivid Lament is inspired by a formative years record box (ABBA, post-Eno Roxy, the Bunnymen, Fables-era REM, Lodger) though the end result could only be the unique union of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore, collectively one of the UK’s most consistently brilliant rock’n’roll bands for over three decades.

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‘You Love Us. Manic Street Preachers In Photographs 1991-2001’ by Tom Sheehan

The latest in the series of books from the archives of legendary music photographer Tom Sheehan, features his extensive work with one of the most important and successful UK bands of the last quarter century and welsh rock icons, Manic Street Preachers.

Over a 10 year period between 1991-2001, the book covers the early days of the band, through the worldwide successes of albums ‘Everything Must Go’ (1996) and ‘This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours’ (1998), up to the infamous 2001 gig at The Karl Marx Theatre, Havana, Cuba, where the band become the first popular western rock band to play in the country, shortly before the release of their 6^thAlbum, ‘Know Your Enemy.’

Tom Sheehan, recalling his work with the band says “The Manic’s arrived fully formed, with a mission, older than their years and more knowledgeable than most. Who does a double album as their first release! The Manics … brave stuff indeed and continuing to be brave to this day"

Additionally, the book will include a foreword written by Nicky Wire, with essays written by Sylvia Patterson, acclaimed music journalist and author of the COSTA shortlisted memoir ‘I’m Not With The Band’ (BBC Radio 1 Annie Nightingale Book Of The Year 2016) who has interviewed the Manic’s throughout her career for Smash Hits, NME and Q Magazine.

Strictly limited to 500 copies
Foreword by Nicky Wire
Essays by Sylvia Patterson
Bound in certificate of authenticity numbered and signed by Tom Sheehan
Over 200 pages with many unseen images
Envelope adhered to the inside front cover contains three 5 x 7" photographs
Printed on 170gsm matt art paper
3mm rigid board slipcase

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