Album 15

[IntlDebris]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

Argh! I've started singing it to the Muppets Show theme tune! Nooo! That's not fair! We haven't even heard it yet!!

Much as I love the band, it's not going to be as good as this.

Wary of the GT font, otherwise stoke up the anticipation.

[Lee]

They do love GT so I hope the font reflects that and the sound of the album.

Think Nicky said a few months back that the album will be out later this year or early next, and then in a really recent interview (maybe late July or early August) he said it was pretty much done.

October or November release sounds right for a November / December tour.

It’s very un-Manics like to send such an email so I’m equally as suspicious as I am excited.

[Routine Builder]

I think others in the know have said no gigs (or a tour) for the rest of the year so I expect the tour to be March or April. Still not sure if we will see the album this year. There was about four months between Orwellian and TUVL, so it depends when we get the single. Could be next Friday or not? Nothing on their socials or the pre-requisite background image changes that proceed any announcements. This is all strange, definitely feel like Nick or the marketing team trolling us.

[Son of Stopped]

I hope it joins the recent BBC Wales show of "Brand new Manics material debuted live to BBCRadio audiences stunned unfamiliar responses next month?

[UEF]

The thing on the two Ls is a watermark/tear drop type thing - it also affects the bottom of the letters above it

[TheUglyLie]

Originally Posted by UEF

The thing on the two Ls is a watermark/tear drop type thing - it also affects the bottom of the letters above it

Also at the start & end of Manic Street Preachers…

[JDMANIC]

Originally Posted by Lee

Oooh just received the email and rushed straight here.

A rather cryptic message. Interesting.

Same here! Hey everyone, been a while.

[Son of Stopped]

Originally Posted by Son of Stopped

I am approaching each new Manics album as if it's their final.

Originally Posted by UEF

The thing on the two Ls is a watermark/tear drop type thing - it also affects the bottom of the letters above it

Originally Posted by TheUglyLie

Also at the start & end of Manic Street Preachers…

Well fuck! Posted too soon?
And hello everybody coming back.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by Routine Builder

I think others in the know have said no gigs (or a tour) for the rest of the year so I expect the tour to be March or April. Still not sure if we will see the album this year. There was about four months between Orwellian and TUVL, so it depends when we get the single. Could be next Friday or not? Nothing on their socials or the pre-requisite background image changes that proceed any announcements. This is all strange, definitely feel like Nick or the marketing team trolling us.

Yeah that’s fair and what we all expected given what we’ve heard recently and previous experiences. But this sort of random and cryptic email is very, very unlike them which makes me think everything is unexpectedly very close.

Or we might be getting FD / Lipstick Traces part two with a new song. Dunno. But it’s out of character.

[*Found That Soul*]

Originally Posted by Lee

Yeah that’s fair and what we all expected given what we’ve heard recently and previous experiences. But this sort of random and cryptic email is very, very unlike them which makes me think everything is unexpectedly very close.

Or we might be getting FD / Lipstick Traces part two with a new song. Dunno. But it’s out of character.

That’s not a bad shout, sometime to coincide with the upcoming 40th anniversary of the band.

[everlasting]

I thought my eyes were going funny when looking at the two Ls haha. I assume we'll get a single soon, then the album in maybe Jan?

[Lee]

Originally Posted by *Found That Soul*

That’s not a bad shout, sometime to coincide with the upcoming 40th anniversary of the band.

Crikey yeah it’s 40 years next year isn’t it. Could well be to do with that.

Bit of a curveball this

Just going through old emails, announcements and orders. It’s usually 13 weeks from announcement to the release. 13 weeks seems to be the pointer.

Sleep next to plastic is different when we got less than a week’s notice.

[deadmartyr]

Unfortunately, I've got Craig David in my head singing "Decline & Fall"

[TheUglyLie]

Originally Posted by deadmartyr

Unfortunately, I've got Craig David in my head singing "Decline & Fall"

Ok if we’re making references to rising & falling then I throwing in Reginald Perrin early 😉👍🏻

[One Man Gang]

Like many, I came here for that email because it was out of the blue and had no clickthrough for me. Just there, waving. Can’t see it on their official socials either, so a very specific audience got it.

First thing I did was to look up the “decline & fall” phrase because I am that basic, and it relates to Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel of a similar same name – the sentences before aren’t out there in that manner, so the red font highlight and title of the comm... The lads/Wire never promote a phrase without a meaning or nudge behind it no matter how esoteric, nor re: an author who has some connection in the past.

Is it a first book > first album thing? Equally, the font degradation is a good spot and perhaps seen as the sands of time ebbing away?

I can waste more time overthinking this but glad someone is having fun over there, watching the fans wonder.