- alternative rock, rock
- 47 min
- 15 tracks
- Columbia
Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, released on 18 May 2009 by Columbia Records. Recorded between October 2008 and February 2009 and produced by Steve Albini and Dave Eringa, it features exclusively posthumously published lyrics by Richey Edwards, who disappeared on 1 February 1995 and was presumed deceased in 2008.
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Grave, character-led, spare and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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Metacritic 85/100 · AnyDecentMusic? 7.7/10
- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- The Irish Times3/5 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- NME8/10
- The Observer4/5 ★
- Pitchfork7.8/10
- Q5/5 ★
- Record Collector4/5 ★
- Uncut4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Peeled Apples3:33
- 2Jackie Collins Existential Question Time2:24
- 3Me and Stephen Hawking2:47
- 4This Joke Sport Severed3:03
- 5Journal for Plague Lovers3:44
- 6She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach2:17
- 7Facing Page: Top Left2:39
- 8Marlon J.D.2:50
- 9Doors Closing Slowly2:52
- 10All Is Vanity3:34
- 11Pretension/Repulsion2:04
- 12Virginia State Epileptic Colony3:22
- 13William’s Last Words4:18
- 14Marlon J.D. (NYPC’s Wire Up mix)4:55
- 15Journal for Plague Lovers (acoustic version)2:52
15 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Manic Street Preachers
- Label
- Columbia
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- MX
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