Journal for Plague Lovers

by Manic Street Preachers

Journal for Plague Lovers cover art

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

  • Alternative Rock

Tracklist

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