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Originally Posted by Scarecrow
If that is what they truly believe, it's certainly odd considering how well it was received. I remember going into HMV the week it was released or the week after and seeing it at #3 in the charts, behind Eminem and Green Day who inevitably would always sell more anyway. Reviews were consistently positive, the tour was well received.
I absolutely love the album, down to the songwriting, the artwork, Albini's production, and I never felt alone in that enjoyment of it. A strange shame the band don't touch it live.
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The interview I read was in Mojo, "He (NW) thinks they probably should have gone straight into 2010's similarly 'big and bombastic' Postcards From a Young Man but Bradfield wanted to make Journal For Plague Lovers which honoured Edwards' final cache of lyrics. 'That was a f@cking curveball' says Wire. 'Artistically we gained but commercially we threw people off the scent again."