Lifeblood

by Manic Street Preachers

Lifeblood cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 November 2004
  • Label: Epic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 45:18
  • Community rating: 3.09/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Nick Nasmyth, Tom Elmhirst, Greg Haver

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Co-produced with Tony Visconti, the Welsh rock veterans embrace a deeply atmospheric, synthesizer-heavy sound for their seventh album. The record replaces their typical guitar bombast with icy, reflective pop-rock, serving as an introspective meditation on history, aging, and emotional alienation.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, alienation, atmospheric, conscious

Tracklist

  1. 1985 (4:08)
  2. The Love of Richard Nixon (3:38)
  3. Empty Souls (4:04)
  4. A Song for Departure (4:18)
  5. I Live to Fall Asleep (3:55)
  6. To Repel Ghosts (3:57)
  7. Emily (3:33)
  8. Glasnost (3:12)
  9. Always / Never (3:40)
  10. Solitude Sometimes Is (3:20)
  11. Fragments (4:01)
  12. Cardiff Afterlife (3:27)

Credits

  • Manic Street Preachers - primary artist
  • Metro Imaging - image editor [image manipulation]
  • Nick Nasmyth - keyboards
  • Jeremy Shaw - keyboards [additional keyboards]
  • James Dean Bradfield - songwriter [all songs written by]
  • Nick Jones - songwriter [all songs written by]
  • Sean Moore - songwriter [all songs written by]
  • Patrick Jones - lyrics by [additional lyrics by]

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