- alternative rock
- 44 min
- 12 tracks
- Columbia
Postcards from a Young Man is the tenth studio album by the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 20 September 2010 by Columbia Records.
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Grave, spare, classical in form and character-led.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 76/100
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Clash8/10
- The Daily Telegraph4/5 ★
- Drowned in Sound6/10
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Independent4/5 ★
- musicOMH3.5/5 ★
- NME7/10
- Pitchfork7.5/10
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1(It’s Not War) Just the End of Love3:28
- 2Postcards From a Young Man3:36
- 3Some Kind of Nothingness3:50
- 4The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)3:27
- 5Hazelton Avenue3:24
- 6Auto-Intoxication3:48
- 7Golden Platitudes4:24
- 8I Think I Found It3:07
- 9A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun3:39
- 10All We Make Is Entertainment4:15
- 11The Future Has Been Here 4ever3:39
- 12Don’t Be Evil3:18
12 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Manic Street Preachers
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- September 20, 2010
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- GB
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