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- Summary: The 15th full-length studio release from Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers was produced by Dave Eringa and Loz Williams and mixed by Caesar Edmunds.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Britpop, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Classic Rock MagazineJan 21, 2025This is much more raw Manic Street Preachers, fuelled by despair as usual but also simplicity. .... Critical Thinking shows that with the Manics, rage never sleeps. [Feb 2025, p.72]
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Jan 31, 2025In the 90s, you’d have bet good money against the band growing older this gracefully, yet here we are with another reflective and thought-provoking set.
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Jan 29, 2025It couldn’t be anyone else making this record in 2025.
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Feb 7, 2025To the uncynical, the occasional lyrical stinker doesn’t distract from what is broadly a thoroughly enjoyable collection of songs. Critical Thinking is still very much a barnstorming Manics album, a state-of-the-nation address that will have many tuning in and nodding along.
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Feb 14, 2025It more than stands on its own merits.
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May 5, 2025It appears they have landed on something magnificent; symphonies of aching, internalised nostalgia and frequent beauty, bookended by hate, despair and some of their finest sonic experiments ever.
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UncutJan 21, 2025It's four-square Manics Big Music, with James Dean Bradfield's guitar especially eloquent, echoing Keith Levene's sour whine on the title track and beautifully relaxed on "Being Baptised"'s Smith-like elegy. [Feb 2025, p.37]