No mid-life crisis

After Best Of and the statements on the 2010 album (load at masscommunication shot) you had to his favorite Welsh (for the younger ones, which is the land where the 100 million soccer players are born, left from England) be a little bang. But when more and more messages went through the press and the Internet, it was clear that the journey with the Manic Street Preachers goes on, their creativity is undiminished. And the Manics rely again on a large constant that runs through their whole career. The courage to change. Sounded far, no two consecutive albums ever the same: garage rock and punk, Plated GunsnRoses glamor or New Wave retrospectives before the world rediscovered.

And they are doing it again. Re-Wind The film is actually as advertised become an almost entirely acoustic album. There are hardly any electric guitar, for loads of acoustic guitars, and strings and winds. This may sound boring. But that this is not even generated some extent, is due to the lyrics. Throughout the album the theme of aging and change draws. No longer does the stormy youthful transformation that the Manics had it myself so forcefully advocated at the beginning of her career, but the natural changes that inevitably begins with the passage of time.

The opener THIS Sullen WELSH HEART addresses this issue. Despair is spreading (I cant fight this was any more, time to surrender, time to move on), but is directly recaptured by hope and brighter mood (the act of creation saves us from despair). So do not worry, there is neither depression geschwängerter soundtrack for the male midlife crisis is presented. The anger is still there, however, become less and also to himself directed (BUILDER OF ROUTINES) partially, and even mixed with the understanding that music has not power to mobilize the masses and to bring to the streets (ANTHEM FOR A Lost Cause). Power enough to rant about the government, there is of course still, albeit with a wink, of course (30 YEARS OF WAR). And it is of course meant the dead, stylish and appropriate. In addition to the still present Richey is also a song dedicated to the suicide of Stuart Adamson (3 WAYS TO DESPAIR).

But do not get the wrong impression that there is not only good, thought-provoking texts en masse, but also melodies and choruses, which settle very pleasant. The already well-known duet RE-WIND THE FILM with Richard Hawley, whose pleasant voice blends beautifully with James, flatters himself a like a lullaby. HOLY AS THE SOIL sounds like an anthem and has made remarkable Brass, the sound on the one hand and on the other hand jubilantly sorrowfully. And then of course, SHOW ME THE WONDER, Soul Pop from another century in pure culture.

A very nice album, with an undeniable proximity to Automatic For The People, wonderfully suited for fall. And in spring 2014 it is supposed to be the U-turn give a Euro disco (!) Album. It will be exciting.