Manic Street Preachers Share New Single ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ Featuring Julia Cumming

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Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers have shared the second single from their upcoming fourteenth album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’. The new single, entitled ‘The Secret He Had Missed’, features Sunflower Bean’s Julia Cumming and is one of two duets on the album – the other being ‘Blank Diary Entry’ featuring Mark Lanegan. Check it out below.

The track comes accompanied by a new video directed by the band’s long-time collaborator Kieran Evans, and stars fellow Welsh star Aimee-Ffion Edwards who’s previously been in ‘Peaky Blinders’, ‘Skins’, and ‘The Detectorists’.

The song explores the lives of Augustus and Gwen John – “Welsh sibling artists who were opposites united by blood yet driven apart by divergent lifestyles”.

Check out ‘The Secret He Had Missed’ here:

The tracklist for ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is:

1. ‘Still Snowing In Sapporo’
2. ‘Orwellian’
3. ‘The Secret He Had Missed’
4. ‘Quest For Ancient Colour’
5. ‘Don’t Let The Night Divide Us’
6. ‘Diapause’
7. ‘Complicated Illusions’
8. ‘Into The Waves Of Love’
9. ‘Blank Diary Entry’
10. ‘Happy Bored Alone’
11. ‘Afterending’

 

Overall, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is described as “a record that gazes in isolation across a cluttered room, fogged by often painful memories, to focus on an open window framing a gleaming vista of land melting into sea and endless sky.”

There are exclusive signed copies, picture disc vinyl and cassette on the official store, an exclusive version of the vinyl with alternate artwork available at HMV and an exclusive yellow version of the vinyl on Amazon.

Following Manic Street Preachers longest enforced break from playing live, the group will also take the album on a 14 date cross-country tour. Support on all the shows comes from The Anchoress (except Wembley). Tickets on sale now, and are available from Ticketmaster here (Affiliate Link). Check dates below.

September
26 – Newcastle – City Hall
28 – Edinburgh – Usher Hall
29 – Dundee – Caird Hall
October
1 – Stoke On-Trent – Victoria Hall
2 – Manchester – Apollo
4 – York – Barbican
5 – Glasgow – Barrowlands
7 – Leeds – Academy
8 – Portsmouth – Guildhall
10 – Bournemouth – Academy
11 – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
13 – Bath – Forum
14 – Brighton – Dome
December
3 – London – Wembley Arena

Check out previous single ‘Orwellian’ here: