Postcards from a Young Man

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Postcards from a Young Man MANIC STREET PREACHERSR&P INTERNATIONALINTERNATIONALMUSICManic Street Preachers' 10th studio album Postcards From A Young Man features guest vocals from Ian McCulloch on one track ("Some Kind of Nothingness"), John Cale on piano ("Auto-Intoxication") and Duff McKagen playing bass ("A Billion Balconies Facing The Sun"). Manics bassist Nicky Wire sings lead vocals on "The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever" alongside drummer Sean Moore on the trumpet. Postcards From A Young Man is the follow up to 2009s Journal for Plague Lovers but is musically very different and more in the vein of Send Away The Tigers and Everything Must Go with unashamed soaring choruses, lots of strings and gospel choirs. It was recorded in Cardiff with producer Dave Eringa and mixed by Chris Lord Alge in the US. Review If last year's Journal for Plague Lovers was the Manics' message from the ghost of their past to their present, this is their present's postcard to their mid-career pop peak. It'sand this isn't a phrase often associated with the Manicsan incredibly jolly rock record. Really. From the waltzing strings on the first track and single, (It's Not War) Just the End of Love, through to the (Google-baiting) Don't Be Evil, Postcards From a Young Man is packed with screamed-from-the-terraces pop moments bankrolled by James Dean Bradfield's syllable-munching holy yelp and a few kitchen sinks' worth of gospel choirs, choppy riffs, power chords and string sections. At this point in the band's career it shouldn't work, but it's hard to resist a band whohaving exorcised the ghosts of Richey on Journalsound like they're enjoying themselves so much. Highlights include Ian McCulloch's backing on the suitably Bunnymen-esque Some Kind of Nothingness and the euphoric Hazelton Avenue, on which The Style Council are channelled through Lenny Kravitz's It Ain't Over til It's Over. There's not a bath of bleach in sight. In an interview with Tony Benn on music webzine(link) this week, Nicky Wire expressed dismay at the lack of political willing shown by current musicians, believing (rightly) that they were the last big British band to have the balls to mix politics with pop. Which is fair enough, even if Postcards is one of their least political LPs yet. If This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours managed to combine songs about the Spanish Civil War and The Silent Twins with some of Bradfield's most pop moments, then Postcards could be the sliding doors opposite of their next step after that, the deeply politicised The Masses Against the Classes and Know Your Enemy. Both concepts are fineand for those Manics fans whose bearing on the band is centred by a Britpop firmament, rather than The Holy Bible, this record will prove a joy. It's jolly, but jolly good. Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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