Manic Street Preachers: Postcards From a Young Man | CD of the week

(Columbia)Music is pretty crude stuff. We know instinctively that minor keys and major keys are shorthand for reflection and uplift. Listeners fall, again and again, quite happily, for the same old tricks. After a lifetime of listening, however, you can get a little oversensitive to having your chain yanked by string sections.So when Manic Street Preachers – never the most subtle of outfits – bill this 10th album as their "last stab at mass communication", you know that Postcards From a You...

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