Journal for Plague Lovers

by Manic Street Preachers

Journal for Plague Lovers cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 May 2009
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:34
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Nicky Wire, Joanna Parkhurst, James Dean Bradfield, Nathan Stone, Sean Moore, Bernard Kane, Katherine Thomas

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Steve Albini, this album acts as a direct spiritual sequel to the band's 1994 masterpiece 'The Holy Bible'. The lyrics consist entirely of previously unused poems and prose left behind by the band's original guitarist Richey Edwards, who disappeared in 1995. Musically, it eschews the polished stadium rock of their intervening years in favor of a raw, abrasive, and angular post-punk sound.

Genres

Descriptors: political, abrasive, dissonant, lo-fi, confrontational

Tracklist

  1. Peeled Apples (3:33)
  2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time (2:24)
  3. Me And Stephen Hawking (2:47)
  4. This Joke Sport Severed (3:03)
  5. Journal For Plague Lovers (3:44)
  6. She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach (2:17)
  7. Facing Page: Top Left (2:39)
  8. Marlon J.D. (2:50)
  9. Doors Closing Slowly (2:52)
  10. All Is Vanity (3:34)
  11. Pretension//Repulsion (2:04)
  12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony (3:22)
  13. William's Last Words (4:19)

Credits

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