New Album Will Be Mostly Acoustic

[Dac X Lee]

If we could only give them such an advice (of James and Nicky singing together), or express the wish to the band themselves, maaaaaaaybe......

Are you guys reading this? (desperate question to the Manics)

[UEF]

James and Nicky have done a duet together before, it was called My Little Empire.

[exopotamie]

Originally Posted by TheUglyLie

Cheers AK47, glad to hear I wasn't just over analyzing things The Wire often describes himself as the "music history theorist" of the band so it's doesn't take a giant leap to believe they would do something like that, as you say for example with "Comfort Comes" or the b-sides to TBTGOG which fed into Lifeblood & the "God Save The Manics" EP which preempted SATT.

I do love the game of finding forward-looking b-sides! That said, it could mean we get a whole album of "Engage With Your Shadow"...

[Marwood]

Originally Posted by exopotamie

I do love the game of finding forward-looking b-sides! That said, it could mean we get a whole album of "Engage With Your Shadow"...

Yes please!

What I always find quite interesting are the tracks that Nicky claims are a clue to the future but then aren't really any such thing. SATT doesn't really sound like 'Leviathan', and neither JFPL or PFAYM really sound anything like 'Lady Lazarus'.

Do the subsequent albums begin in those directions, and naturally evolve towards something else? Is there an (justifiably) abandoned, half-finished album in the vault that sounds like 'Leviathan'? Or is it just Nicky making vague predictions because the same thing once happened with 'Comfort Comes'? (Clue - it's definitely the last one).

[Dac X Lee]

Originally Posted by UEF

James and Nicky have done a duet together before, it was called My Little Empire.

Nicky sounds more of a back vocal there. Unless you mean another super edition of the song not from the original version of the album.

What I want is a half-half duet where both of them have their time to show off.

[Manualex16]

Your love alone has the right amount of Nicky vocals in a song.

[Porco]

Originally Posted by exopotamie

a whole album of "Engage With Your Shadow"...

Possible tracklisting for the extremely scary Engage With Your Shadow (the album):

1. Engage With Your Shadow
2. He Get Washy Audio Wrong
3. Gadgetry, I Own. Use? Ha! How?
4. Audio When Wet Or Shaggy
5. Stage Wig Underway: Oh-Oh!
6. Goose Unheard (Why Wag It?)
7. I Show Goth Unready Wage
8. Weighed Hogs To Runaway
9. What Youngish Woe Raged
10. Wee Highways / Tour And Go
11. A Haughty Song Wire Owed
12. He Unworthy As A Gig We Do

[tzb]

Originally Posted by Porco

2. He Get Washy Audio Wrong
6. Goose Unheard (Why Wag It?)

loved them all but these were the obvious single choices

[AK47]

I'm really excited for this now. I just want news of tracklisting, etc.

[wireobsessed]

Some real news from the band would be great wouldn't it?

[Scarecrow]

Originally Posted by Marwood

Do the subsequent albums begin in those directions, and naturally evolve towards something else? Is there an (justifiably) abandoned, half-finished album in the vault that sounds like 'Leviathan'? Or is it just Nicky making vague predictions because the same thing once happened with 'Comfort Comes'? (Clue - it's definitely the last one).

While this is a good point, Lifeblood didn't surprise me after Grace of God/Door to the River and Tigers didn't surprise me after Firefight. Clutching at straws there and I didn't see them as predictions or whatever, but I could sense a hint of those directions before I really analysed it.

[mar]

No Sean playing bongos? tsk...

[tomd2103]

Originally Posted by TheUglyLie

Theory :
Of the last two songs on 'Postcards...' one has horns (The Future Has Been Here 4 Ever) & the other is a spikey, electric guitar driven number (Don't Be Evil). Could they be signposts to the forthcoming albums?

*runs & hides awaiting abuse*

Could be. I am just wondering if Red Rubber might also be a signpost to the 'electronic' sounding album that has been mentioned.

[wireobsessed]

Think from FB and the comments on interviews while in NZ its definitely melancholic, acoustic and probably going to be my total downfall. It's already got me hooked and sounds beautiful. I wish I had Nicky's copy so I could listen to it now.

[sofarsideways]

So my idea of this album is along the lines of 'This Joke Sport Severed'/the Nicky acoustic demos of '...Bath Of Bleach' and 'Some Kind Of Nothingness' crossed with TIMTTMY. I like this idea very much. I don't know how correct it is, but I like it anyway.