Album on CD1, demos on CD2 • Bookset

The Ultra Vivid Lament is the 14^th studio album from Manic Street Preachers. It is both reflection and reaction; 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.

Musically, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’ is inspired by a formative years record box (ABBA, post-Eno Roxy, the Bunnymen, Fables-era REM, Lodger) though the end result could only be the unique union of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore, collectively one of the UK’s most consistently brilliant rock’n’roll bands for over three decades.

This 2CD deluxe edition contains a bonus disc of demos

The Ultra Vivid Lament is released on 3 September 2021

 

CD 1

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

CD2

1. Still Snowing in Sapporo (Demo)
2. Orwellian (Demo)
3. The Secret He Had Missed (Demo)
4. Quest for Ancient Colour (Demo)
5. Don’t Let The Night Divide Us (Nicky Wire Home Demo)
6. Don’t Let The Night Divide Us (Demo)
7. Diapause (Demo)
8. Complicated Illusions (Nicky Wire Home Demo)
9. Complicated Illusions (Demo)
10. Into The Waves of Love (Demo)
11. Blank Diary Entry (Demo)
12. Happy Bored Alone (Demo)
13. Afterending (Demo)