Thrown by the lack of lyrics or a quote with the vinyl copies. Are they with the CD?

God, I really want to hear the album the title track actually fits on. This is so good.

I have many thoughts but for now:

Late Day Peaks reminds me heavily of A Soundtrack to Complete Withdrawal (in a good way).

I love how odd the second half of the album is.

My Brave Friend is my favourite track of the second half, maybe the whole album.

Even my least favourite tracks (Being Baptised, Out of Time Revival) are getting better already on repeated listens.

Great album, loving it. Feels too short, I want more!

Let The Light Return - feels strange when Nicky tries to write and sing happy.

Johatsu -reminds me of All Alone Here sprinkled with something (can't quite place what)

First Manics album I’ve not thought wow on first listen

Hopefully it’s a grower but so far not feeling it.

On the plus side, I now have enough tracks to make my Futurology II album.

Can the Japanese bonus tracks be download anywhere at all?

Would love to see your track listing for that :cool:

I second the request for that tracklisting.

Too soon for album rankings? How about "You Had That And Gave Us Decline&Fall?".
Ah, it's ok I'll be answering that one over the weekend hopefully.
But I did mention how much I love and was bowled over by People Ruin Paintings.
Still half reading messages and scrolling.

I think OneManMilitia would have made for a much better opener. It's a nice piece of mid to late 2000's indie synth pop.

1. Critical Thinking
2. Sequels of Forgotten Wars
3. A Soundtrack to Complete Withdrawal
4. People Ruin Paintings
5. Diapause
6. Broken Algorithms
7. Still Snowing in Saporro
8. Deleted Scenes
9. My Drowning World
10. A Song for the Sadness
11. Afterending

Carpenter is the only real threat but it's a deluxe and the original has sold tons already.

Ironically if they'd released last week (7/2) they would've beaten Inhaler but... been suddenly completely annihilated by "The Margaret Thatcher of Pop" (TM, Neil Tennant) who, thankfully for MSP, brought her live vinyl album forward a week. That's on track to be No1 with 50k plus sales. Manics will be low to mid 20k.

If they'd released on the original date (31/1) they'd have been beaten by The Weeknd.

Amazon picture disc now delivering tomorrow as well

Fingers crossed then, I know charts don’t matter but I like seeing their name up in lights.