Scotsman.com — MANIC STREET PREACHERS Journal For Plague Lovers **** Columbia 88697520592, £12.72 more info

Guardian Music — Louis Pattison reveals why Jarvis and the Manics want the Albini effectThe thing that every popular musician fears most - apart from some Mark Chapman-like stalkerfan that's broken into their home and is panting in a cupboard clutching a rusty shiv -... more info

Guardian Music — The impact the Manic Street Preachers album cover has made raises the interesting possibility that hand-made, painterly images now have more power to shock than conceptual artworksIt's not exactly Smell the Glove, is it? In the world's greatest rocku... more info

AngryApe — UK supermarkets feel it's too graphic more info

NME — Major chains won't display 'Journal For Plague Lovers' cover more info

Guardian Music — Journal for Plague Lovers is to be stocked in plain slipcases because its artwork, which features a painting of a boy's face apparently splattered with blood, is deemed 'inappropriate'British supermarkets are to hide the cover of the new Manic Street... more info

ContactMusic — The cover of the new Manic Street Preachers album will be censored in supermarkets as its painted artwork has been ruled inappropriate.Journal for... more info

The Answering Machine announced they are supporting Manic Street Preachers on their forthcoming UK dates.They were personally requested by the Welsh trio to join them on their tour as main support ... more info

Guardian Music — (Columbia)This is the Manics' catharsis album: its lyrics were written by Richey Edwards, who gave them to his bandmates just before his disappearance, and are heard here for the first time. It's taken the band 14 years to put music to what turned ou... more info

Express Newspapers — THE Manics' ninth album consists entirely of unearthed lyrics by Richey Edwards, written before the troubled songwriter disappeared in 1995. more info