168 Songs of Hatred and Failure - A History of Manic Street Preachers: Hardback Book Fred again.. emanating from Cardiff’s post-industrial docklands

emanating from Cardiff’s post-industrial docklands

mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis

Second single ‘Free Hit’ deploys a scattered junglist break

the enigmatic collective led by visionary Ray Monde create a trance-like fusion of psychedelia and avant jazz

Written and recorded alone at home and at The Metal Shop

168 Songs of Hatred and Failure - A History of Manic Street Preachers: Hardback Book Fred again.. emanating from Cardiff’s post-industrial docklandsThe story of Manic Street Preachers is unique in pop. Raging out of the stricken mining communities of south Wales in the late 80s, they were bonded by friendships, family ties and a self styled 'geometry of contempt', whereby James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore would orchestrate the daring intellectual broadsides written by Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire. Seemingly condemned to mere cult status by a cruel juncture of artistic triumph, commercial