Manic Street Preachers Share Teaser Of New Song Out Later This Week

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Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers have shared a clip of a new song, check it out below.

The new preview was shared to the group’s social media pages today, and features a quote from Joan Didion alongside some images, including one of a beach, some electricity pylons, and a bench (A diamond shape is present in each of the images). Ending with “May 14th” (This Friday).

The Joan Didion quote reads “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

James Dean Bradfield can also be heard singing in the clip “Is this just the beginning?”

The social media post was tagged with the line ‘#TULA’, possibly a tease for the track/album name.

MAY 14TH #TUVL pic.twitter.com/wL4Neooyre

— Manic Street Preachers (@Manics) May 10, 2021

The band previously stated that their upcoming album sounded like ‘The Clash playing ABBA’.

The Welsh rock trio spent two weeks recording their upcoming 14th album at Rockfield Studios in Wales earlier this year. Despite the lockdown measures which made recording the album a different process from what they’re used to, the band are happy with the record because it boasts “miserable lyrics and great pop”. Speaking in the latest print edition of MOJO (via Contact Music), the Manics recalled their time recording the new full-length.

Bassist-and-songwriter Nicky Wire said “I recorded my entire fucking bass parts with a mask on. But it’s the most rehearsed we’ve ever been for an album.”

“The catchphrase was ‘like The Clash playing Abba’ – The Clash when you felt they could play in any style. It’s quite a subtle record. There are, always, guitars, but it’s very restrained for us, and really tasteful.”

He added, “It’s the usual thing, miserable lyrics and great pop.”