Any Manics fans here?

Their new album is getting incredible reviews; "Futurology" a wild mix of "post punk disco rock" as bassist Nicky Wire is memorably putting it. I haven't read reviews this good for an album in quite a while, and, I honestly think the album lives up to the hype - it's excellent.

26 years into a career, 12th album, and it may be one of their top 2 or 3 albums; great achievement.

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Really good band and I have the album. Not exactly post punk dico but just a good collection of songs.

It's a great album! Who would have thought all those years back that they would still be around and relevant today?

I'm a huge Manics fan and the new album is truly sensational. Highly recommended to anyone on IORR who's yet to check them out.

The Manics themselves are big Stones fans and have admitted that the song 'Sex, Power, Love and Money' on Futurology was in part musically inspired by the Stones song 'Undercover of the Night'

Here you go:

"Musically we tried to fuse Nirvana/Undercover Of The Night/The Skids - tried to distil comment down to the four most powerful words and drivers in modern society - all the rest are crushed by these concepts for better or for worse. Verse meant to sound like a Joe Strummer/Mick Jagger rap that moves into an old school gigantic Manics chorus + vintage JDB guitar solo."