"MAN REWIND THE FILM FUTUROLOGY" I intend to introduce as hipster slang for woah there a second etc.
So I have to get the shirt for that alone.

Did Amazon have any picture disc for sale or is it a placeholder?

The way James played guitar only on their recent This Is Yesterday performances with The Anchoress. That's seriously, really helped with Hiding In Plain Sight.
Hahaha you could see that sort of thing coming then if it's that hidden!
I'm confident the album will at least turn out an oscillation of "Not bad" to "URMF!! AAARGHH!!! THERE IS NO BETTER MUSIC THAN" etc things the band can still do.
Only thing is, what will those who didn't know This Is Yesterday? Let alone performed like that? What will they make of it?

Thanks for the heads up. Grabbed a copy as well. Double CD for £22 and the picture disc (for the alternative artwork) on Amazon, and I'll order the red vinyl.

They did earlier today, out of stock now, but this has happened in the past and they’ve just put more available

Thought the new song sounds rather great actually and i was dreading listening to it after those early comments but it has a real effortless, breezy charm and the guitar sounds great. I could see this belonging on intimism. It's another nostalgia, looking back lyric but fine, i still think it sounds great and it's a ballsy move to have a nicky-fronted single. Down for that.

Then i saw the vid which elevated it to another level for me because it's about something and we almost get the return of the man in the salmon pink suit. Maybe i'm just starved for decent manics vids these days.

Thanks for the tip! Bought!

I kinda outgrew ‘buying the same release on multiple formats’ a couple of decades ago now and the Manics bundles and endless reissues make me very glad I no longer have the inclination. So much money! If the digital age hadn’t made streaming so dominant I wouldn’t be able to afford or have the space for buying everything I enjoyed physically anymore, I’ve discovered so much else in recent years.

The 7" being UK only fucking sucks.

Good idea for a thread of its own… I’m on it… :)

Following on from above… the official store blurb for the 7inch of “the only way to listen on vinyl” is suggestive of a Japanese bonus tracks on CD release to me. More optimistically they might just mean a digital release everywhere, fingers crossed. I guess we’ll find out in due course.

Ah I heard that too yesterday on Apple Music. I thought they’d accidentally released another track and then D&F kicked in! It’s back to the single version again this morning 😢

Thankfully these songs have grown on me a fair bit. I spent a small fortune and ordered the complete bundle. All is right in the world 😊

I'm just getting the vinyl and the single with 2 bonus tracks look interesting, I think they might be Nicky songs. I thought I saw a red vinyl before... though might have been the Lifeblood one.

Red vinyl is indie stores exclusive (rough trade, resident music etc).

If they had made decent videos the last decade or so I think they would still be much more popular with a wider audience. Compare the comment activity to the new video to the last what 20 or so. That live performance style suits them sooooo much better than moody looks into the sunset or at their feet 😂