Critical Thinking AwaitingStock The Competition is a pop

The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent

Featuring the hits “Womanizer” “Circus” and “Radar”

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he now presents a follow-up record that is a very different animal

Critical Thinking AwaitingStock The Competition is a popManic Street Preachers have released details of their fifteenth studio album Critical Thinking. Initially inspired by a line from the poet Anne Sexton ("I am a collection of dismantled almosts"), Hiding in Plain Sight contrasts a fearful midlife nostalgia one in which the writer longs to keep the curtains drawn all day with a gloriously uplifting melody that draws on classic 70s rocknroll of The Only Ones, Cockney Rebel and the loose flow of Dinosaur