Postcards from a Young Man
Occupation
- Vocal / Guitar: James Dean Bradfield
- Bass: Nicky Wire
- Drums: Sean Moore
Postcards from a Young Man is the tenth studio album by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was published in the German territory on 17 September 2010 in the UK on 20 September. After the dark and experimental predecessor Journal for Plague Lovers, whose texts were based solely on left-behind records of the missing band member Richey James Edwards, Postcards from a Young Man is again a catchy rock album by fans and critics often with the band classic Everything Must Go compared to 1996.
Background
Early in the recording process made the Manic Street Preachers clear that their new album, the dark line of the predecessor will not continue. In an interview with NME said singer James Dean Bradfield: "This time we focus on the big radio hits, it is not a sequel to Journal for Plague Lovers It's a last attempt of mass communication.. . "
Postcards From a Young Man was re- recorded with the master producers of the Manic Street Preachers, Dave Eringa. In addition, Loz Williams and the band themselves were responsible as producers. The recordings began in October 2009 and found in the Faster studios in Cardiff instead. Mixed were the songs of Chris Lord-Alge in Los Angeles, for mastering drew Howie Weinberg in New York responsible.
Ian McCulloch ( Echo & The Bunnymen ) is Bradfield's duet partner in the song Some Kind of Nothingness. Other guest posts on the album come from John Cale (keyboards and background noise in Car Intoxication ) and Duff McKagan of Guns N 'Roses (bass in A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun ). On the cover of the album, the actor Tim Roth is seen.
Publication
Reviews
The album received mostly favorable reviews, although overall less enthusiastic than its predecessor. At Metacritic it received a rating of 76 out of 100. The All Music Guide awarded 4.5 out of 5 score and described the album as " sincere fun with lots of claim ". Even the NME awarded with 7 out of 10 points a positive rating. The same rating there was in Germany from Plattentests.de where reviewer Mark Read this album described as " not perfect, but damn good." Slightly less positively evaluated laut.de where Katja Bath Baby 3 of 5 points awarded and wrote. " The Manic Street Preachers 2010 demonstrate what they still have it and where they come sometimes they lose, unfortunately, in their backwardness and act sometimes as bitter old men. "
Chart positions
Album
Like its predecessor reached Postcards From a Young Man # 3 in the UK charts. In Germany, the album only rank 65, which is the weakest performance since 14 years ago, made, as it Everything Must Go did not make it into the Top 100 reached. In Switzerland, recorded the album no great success, there was only ranked 87th
Singles
A total of three singles from the album were released, all of which could only slits in the UK. The pre-release (It's Not War ) Just the End of Love was there most successful with number 28 in the UK singles charts. However, this meant the worst result for a regularly published single of the Manic Street Preachers for 18 years, as Little Baby Nothing did not exceed 29 square
Even less success had the following two singles: Some Kind of Nothingness ( 44th) and the title track Postcards From A Young Man ( 54th place ).