Critical Thinking LimitedStock including Randy Newman (the raucous

including Randy Newman (the raucous "Gone Dead Train")

offering fascinating insight into the band's recording process and the development of the album

you may need to keep it from self-destructing and taking your whole squad down

"Chunky" & "Too Good To Say Goodbye"

Featuring some of Sir Dave’s most brilliant work

Critical Thinking LimitedStock including Randy Newman (the raucousManic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album Critical Thinking. Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), Hiding in Plain Sight contrasts a fearful midlife nostalgia one in which the writer longs to keep the curtains drawn all day with a gloriously uplifting melody that draws on classic 70s rocknroll of The Only Ones, Cockney Rebel and the loose flow of Dinosaur