Number 28
Manic Street Preachers
"Journal For Plague Lovers"
Released: May 18th 2009
Key Tracks: "Peeled Apples" / "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time" / "She Bathed Herself In A Bath Of Bleach"
14 years after his disappearance, Richey Edwards made a remarkable return to the Manics. An album made up purely of lyrics left in a notebook by the now presumed dead "guitarist" over angry punk and scuzzy guitars is the band's most dynamic work since "The Holy Bible" and showed that there's still life in the old dogs yet.
Despite being written in the early nineties, the lyrics hold up to the modern day, James Dean Bradfield's vocals have never sounded better.
It's been a long time coming, but it's incredible just how great this album sounds. A late decade classic from one of the best bands around.
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