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Melancholy Optimism: Manic Street Preachers

Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 19 February 2018

The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss a record that's either the start of a great new era or the end of it all.

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