Had another listen through the half term noise, and its a nice album, with pleasant songs. Don't think there's massive repeat listen value on it but its better than Postcards or RIF, for example.
People Ruin Paintings was on the radio earlier and it sounded good in situ versus some of the other horrific new music being plated (The Kooks, their new song is dreadful) - some bands/songs sound good on the radio (Dreams by The Cranberries) and the Manics are definitely one of those bands. I agree with another thread/post further back about them writing a 'radio banger' - I'd take an EP of them over a full album of 'nice'.
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