The song is taken from their forthcoming 14th studio album 'The Ultra Vivid Lament', which will be released on 3rd September via Columbia/Sony. Pre-order your copy here.
Manic Street Preachers on 'Orwellian': “The track is about the battle to claim meaning, the erasing of context within debate, the overriding sense of factional conflict driven by digital platforms leading to a perpetual state of culture war. As with many songs on the record, it was written on the piano by James Dean Bradfield. Musically, it echoes ABBA, the majesty of Alan Rankine’s playing in the Associates and Talk Talk’s ‘It’s My Life’ with a Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo. It felt like the perfect sonic and lyrical introduction to The Ultra Vivid Lament”.
Watch the clip below, it was directed by frequent band collaborator Kieran Evans.
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