MANIC STREET PREACHERS Postcards From A Young Man (2010 UK 12-track CD album - Ten albums into their life's work, it would be wrong to say that the Manic Street Preachers are raging against the dying of the light. 'Postcards From A Young Man' comes after the acclaimed 'Journal For Plague Lovers', a record of steely intent and corrosive power on which every lyric was taken from the final folder of work left by former member Richey Edwards just prior to his disappearance in 1995. That album in turn was a typically stark and startling follow-up to 2007s triumphantly resurgent 'Send Away The Tigers', an album that gave new heart to their global faithful. 'Postcards...' may be their best yet. Defiantly, unapologetically bold and forthright and communicative, it makes the head swim with both the thrill of its tunes and its theories [always a heady Manics mix] and burns with that raging melancholia that has always been unique to them. Includes the single '[It's Not War] Just The End Of Love' and features a guest appearance by Echo & The Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch)