Manic Street Preachers - ‘Orwellian’

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Written By Max Mazonowicz
“The track 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. As with many songs on the record, it was written on the piano by James Dean Bradfield. Musically, it echoes ABBA, the majesty of Alan Rankine’s playing in the Associates and Talk Talk’s ‘It’s My Life’ with a Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo. It felt like the perfect sonic and lyrical introduction to ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’.”
— Manic Street Preachers

Our favourite Welsh anthemic, rock band Manic Street Preachers return with their 14th studio album The Ultra Vivid Lament on 3rd September 2021 and have announced a tour for this autumn. This is ‘Orwellian’, the first track to be released.

Max Mazonowicz

I’m the editor-in-chief. The guy who looks after this whole damn place. And the music you see here is the kinda sounds that I’m into. They’re my questions, but not my answers.

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